I started my Christmas baking last night with two batches of Chocolate-Peppermint cookies and one batch of Mint Surprise cookies. It felt so, so good to bake something Christmas-y...and now I am full of holiday spirit. And cookies.
I made my Chocolate-Peppermint cookies as I have for the past several years. My cookie is based on Hershey's Double Chocolate Mini Kisses Cookies recipe. I simply decrease the amount of vanilla to one teaspoon, add one teaspoon of peppermint extract, and substitute the Mini Kisses for Andes Peppermint Chip Baking Bits. Heaven!
I tried a new recipe and combined chocolate with mint to make these Mint Surprise cookies, which is based on Hershey's Triple Chocolate Cookies. I added one teaspoon of mint extract to the batter, omitted the chocolate chips entirely, and used Hershey's Mint Chocolate Truffle Kisses for the top.
These were absolutely delicious! The bag of Kisses contained twice what I needed for the recipe, and at the rate these are going, I'll need to make another batch soon. And next time, I might throw in some mint chocolate chips in the batter (instead of the mint extract--or maybe in addition to?) to turn the mint flavor up to full-blast. Seriously, you should make these--they are amazing!
Then, because the oven was on and I needed to use up some pumpkin puree leftover from Thanksgiving, I made pumpkin doughnut muffins. Because I can't live on just cookies, you know?
Actually, I could live entirely on cookies. My health would be dreadful and my teeth would rot out of my head, but I could make it work for several years before being claimed by scurvy.
My holiday baking is now 15% complete. That is, if I don't eat all of these cookies myself. If so, then it's back to the
2 comments:
15% done?! Oh my! Everything looks great though. Wish I
Lived nearer so that I could come and taste test for you.
I can send some if you'd like! Just email me your address and I'll see what I can do. :)
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