Peppermint Pattie Cookies Recipe
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Ingredients: Cookies
1 ⅔ c. all-purpose flour
½ c. unsweetened cocoa butter
½ tsp. baking soda
¼ tsp. salt
1 ½ sticks (or 12 tbsp.) unsalted butter, melted and cooled
1 c. loosely packed brown sugar
½ c. granulated sugar
1 egg + 1 egg yolk, at room temperature
2 tsp. vanilla extract
1 c. dark chocolate chips
Peppermint Pattie Cream
2 c. powdered sugar
1 ½ tbsp. unsalted butter, softened
3 tbsp. evaporated milk
¼ tsp vegetable oil
¼ tsp. vanila extract
¼ tsp. peppermint extract
Ganache Topping
3.5 ounces pure semisweet or bittersweet chocolate, chopped small
heavy cream equal in quantity ot the chocolate
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Preheat the oven to 350 º F
Mix the flour, cocoa, salt and baking soda in a bowl and set aside. In another bowl, mix the cooled butter and sugars until they are combined. Add the egg, egg yolk, and vanilla and stir until mixed. Gradually add in dry ingredients and mix until a dough forms--it will look crumbly at first, but it will come together. [Feel free to use your washed hands if needed.] Fold in chocolate chunks.
Roll dough into 1 - 1½ inch balls and place about 2 inches apart on a nonstick baking sheet or baking sheet with parchment paper. Bake for 8-10 minutes, or until the middles are just set. Don't overbake! Let cool immediately.
Peppermint Pattie Cream
While cookies are cooling, add powdered sugar, butter, milk, vegetable oil, vanilla and peppermint extracts to the bowl of an electric mixer. Beat until smooth and creamy. Use a spatula and spread the peppermint cream over the top of each cookie evenly.
Ganache Topping
Using a double boiler, slowly melt the dark chocolate, and once it is completely melted, stir in the heavy cream slowly, until the texture is still runny enough to drizzle over the cookies, but not too runny.
Using a fork or a spoon, drizzle the chocolate over the cookies in a fast zigzag motion to give the white frosted cookies some chocolatey stripes.
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Notes: This recipe is from
https://www.howsweeteats.com/2013/01/peppermint-pattie-cookies/
Jessica Merchant, food blogger. Modified slightly by me because the ganache ingredients didn't have the right proportions to work, and the directions for ganache was not written out.
I found this recipe on the Internet during a Christmas holiday season, and made some as part of a collection of cookies for my siblings, mother and kids. I mailed the package to my daughter and son-in-law in San Diego, only to learn that the package had been stolen from their front porch! I still seethe over that dastardly deed, and if I meet that thief in Hell, I'll throw my cookies in the fire before I'll share them with him! These and the Rosemary shortbread in this book are my two favorite cookies of this lifetime. I can't imagine that Satan himself come up with anything more fun.
These cookies require a commitment of time because of the multiple steps involved, but once you bite through the smooth sweet layer of mint topping and you feel the rich, minty chocolate chew of the cookie in your mouth, accented by bursts of chocolate from the chocolate chips, you'll see why they're worth the trouble!
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