Cuisine: Cookies, Holiday, Christmas
Author: Adapted from Bon Appetit - January 1990
Prep time: 20 mins
Cook time: 10 mins
Total time: 30 mins
- 5 ounces (143 grams) unsweetened chocolate, broken into ½ ounce pieces
- 1-1/3 cups (286 grams) sugar
- 8 tablespoons (1 stick) unsalted butter, softened
- 2 eggs
- 1 tablespoon (4 grams) instant coffee
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 3 drops peppermint oil
- 1 cup (134 grams) all purpose flour
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 2 cups (429 grams) semisweet chocolate chips
- 50 peppermint kisses
- Preheat the oven to 350°. Line three baking sheets with parchment paper and set aside.
- Place the unsweetened chocolate and sugar into a food processors. Process until the chocolate is finely chopped. Add the butter, eggs, coffee, vanilla and peppermint oil. Pulse on/off until blended. Pulse in the flour and salt. Lastly, add the chocolate chips and pulse on/off just until the chips are incorporated into the dough.
- Use a small cookie dough scoop (2 teaspoons) to scoop the dough onto the prepared baking sheets.
- Bake at 350° for 10 minutes, rotating the pans top to bottom and front to back halfway through.
- While the cookies are baking, unwrap the kisses. As soon as the cookies come out of the oven, place a peppermint kiss on each cookie, gently pushing it in just a bit.
- Cool on the baking sheets.
Recipe by Desserts Required at https://www.dessertsrequired.com/peppermint-kiss-cookies
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