I had some leftover gingerbread cookie dough leftover from the Postcard Gingerbread Cookies recipe I did a few days ago. I could have tossed it out but isn't that one of the deadly sins? Makes sense to me, “Though shalt not toss out unused cookie dough!” With my leftover dough I created these Mini Chocolate Chip & Peppermint Gingerbread Cookies. The boys loved 'em and if you're a fan of gingerbread, dark chocolate, and peppermint I think you will too.
Mini Chocolate Chip & Peppermint Gingerbread Cookies
Ingredients:
- 3 1/3 cup all purpose flour
- 3/4 cup dark chocolate chip morsels
- 1/3 cup crushed candy cane
- 1/3 tsp Sea salt
- 1 tsp ground ginger
- 1/2 tsp cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp allspice
- 1/2 tsp cloves
- 1/4 nutmeg
- 1 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 10 tbsp (1 stick + tbsp) unsalted butter, room temperature
- 1/4 cup shortening, room temperature
- 1 cup dark brown sugar
- 1 egg
Directions:
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
- Using a baking brush, butter a mini cookie pan or spend the time like I did and cut out little circles of parchment paper.
- In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, cream butter and brown sugar until it is fluffy.
- Add molasses and mix.
- Add egg and vanilla extract.
- Spoon in flour mixture in patches adding a 1/4 at a time and mixing until just combined after each addition.
- Divide the cookie dough into two portions (the dough will cool faster and evenly divided into two portions instead of one big mass of cookie dough) and refrigerate for 2 hours or longer.
- Remove from fridge and working on a floured surface roll out gingerbread cookie dough to 1/4 thickness using a rolling pin.
- Spoon 1 1/2 tablespoons of gingerbread dough into the palm of your hand and work into a ball. Press ball into mini cookie pan hole and add 3 – 4 dark chocolate chips.
- Repeat process until you have filled the mini cookie pan.
- At 325 degrees bake cookies for 10 – 14 minutes.
- Remove from oven and and while dough is still soft press shards of crushed peppermint candy cane into cookies.
- Allow to cool completely on a wire rack.
- Serve.
Mini Chocolate Chip & Peppermint Gingerbread Cookies
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Author: Alea
Recipe type: Christmas Cookies
Ingredients
- 3⅓ cup all purpose flour
- ¾ cup dark chocolate chip morsels
- ⅓ cup crushed candy cane
- ⅓ tsp Sea salt
- 1 tsp ground ginger
- ½ tsp cinnamon
- ½ tsp allspice
- ½ tsp cloves
- ¼ nutmeg
- 1 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 10 tbsp (1 stick + tbsp) unsalted butter, room temperature
- ¼ cup shortening, room temperature
- 1 cup dark brown sugar
- 1 egg
Directions
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
- Using a baking brush butter a mini cookie pan or spend the time like a I did and cut out little circles of parchment paper.
- In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment cream butter and brown sugar until it is fluffy.
- Add molasses and mix.
- Add egg and vanilla extract.
- Spoon in flour mixture in patches adding a ¼ at a time and mixing until just combined after each addition.
- Divide the cookie dough into two portions (the dough will cool faster and evenly divided into two portions instead of one big mass of cookie dough) and refrigerate for 2 hours or longer.
- Remove from fridge and working on a floured surface roll out gingerbread cookie dough to ¼ thickness using a rolling pin.
- Spoon 1½ tablespoons of gingerbread dough into the palm of your hand and work into a ball. Press ball into mini cookie pan hole and add 3 - 4 dark chocolate chips.
- Repeat process until you have filled the mini cookie pan.
- At 325 degrees bake cookies for 10 - 14 minutes.
- Remove from oven and and while dough is still soft press shards of crushed peppermint candy cane into cookies.
- Allow to cool completely on a wire rack.
- Serve.
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