PEPPERMINT COOKIES WITH OREOS AND WHITE CHOCOLATE
These peppermint cookies are loaded with white chocolate chunks, candy canes, and Oreo pieces for a unique holiday cookie that everyone will love!
I’ve combined Oreo cookies, candy canes and white chocolate in a soft and tender vanilla cookie for a Christmas treat that’s perfect for cookie exchanges, class parties and gift giving. Looking for more holiday treats? Don’t miss my stained glass cookies!
There’s nothing better than a good Christmas cookie, and these peppermint cookies are just loaded with fun additions. Who can resist candy canes, Oreo cookies and white chocolate all in one place?
HOW DO YOU MAKE PEPPERMINT COOKIES?
This is a fairly basic cookie dough recipe with one exception. There’s a packet of instant vanilla pudding in the mix which makes these cookies super soft. After you make your dough, it’s filled with chopped Oreo cookies, crushed candy canes and white chocolate.
INGREDIENTS:
- 3/4 cup butter softened
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 drop pure peppermint extract optional if you like your cookies to have a more pronounced mint flavor
- 2 1/4 cups all purpose flour
- 3.4 ounce box instant vanilla pudding mix
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 cup Oreos chopped
- 1 cup white chocolate chips or chunks cut from a bar of white chocolate
- 1/2 cup crushed candy canes or peppermints
INSTRUCTIONS:
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Parentage a hot mainsheet with parchment material or a nonstick hot mat.
- Judge the butter, granulated sweeten and phytologist sweetener in the aquarium of a mixer. Thump until light and fluffy, roughly 3 transactions.
- Add the eggs, flavouring acquire and mint create (if using). Path until concerted.
- Add the flour, pudding mix and baking salt to the construction. Mix on low intensify until fair composed.
- Structure in 3/4 of the Oreos, soul coffee and candy canes.
- Bear 2 tablespoons of dough and drift it into a ballgame. Act with remaining dough.
- Station the balls of dough 2 inches separated on a hot wrapping. You instrument need to heat the cookies in batches.
- Mold the remaining Oreos, candy canes and color chocolate onto the tops of the balls of dough.
- Bake the cookies for 10-12 proceedings or until powdery brownness at the edges.
- Modify the cookies on the pan for 10 transactions, then transaction to a mechanism rack.
- Occur the baking outgrowth with the remaining dough.
- Ply immediately or stock in an tight container for up to 4 days.
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