Every bite of these festive peppermint cookies contains crushed candy canes!
| Prep Time: | 15 mins |
| Cook Time: | 10 mins |
| Additional Time: | 15 mins |
| Total Time: | 40 mins |
| Servings: | 36 |
| Yield: | 36 cookies |
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter, softened
- ¾ cup white sugar
- 1 egg, beaten
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ½ cup crushed peppermint candy canes
- ¾ cup confectioners’ sugar
- 5 teaspoons warm water
- 2 tablespoons crushed peppermint candy canes, or to taste (Optional)
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease baking sheets, or line with parchment paper.
- Beat butter and sugar together in a large bowl with an electric mixer until light and fluffy. Beat in egg until completely incorporated. Mix in flour and salt to form a soft dough. Fold in crushed candy canes. Roll dough into walnut-size balls and place 1 inch apart onto prepared baking sheets.
- Bake in the preheated oven until edges are golden, 8 to 10 minutes. Cool on the baking sheet briefly before removing to a wire rack to cool completely, 8 to 10 minutes more.
- Meanwhile, make the icing: Whisk confectioners’ sugar and warm water together in a small bowl until smooth. Dip the top of a cookie into icing, then sprinkle with crushed candy canes. Repeat with remaining cookies. Allow icing to set before serving, at least 5 minutes.
Reviews
They turned out good, added a little peppermint extract, and half a teaspoon of baking powder. Plenty of flavor, I should have hammered the peppermint a little smaller, but the grandchild who is getting them, will love them.
Delicious
These are just awful! No flavor to the cookie. I even added 1 tsp of vanilla AND 1 tsp of peppermint extract but still bland. They are also difficult to “roll into balls”. It was more like a very dense drop cookie. The only thing that halfway helped the taste was added crushed peppermints to the glaze and then sprinkling some MORE crushed peppermints on top of the glaze. Don’t waste your ingredients on this recipe!
I added the full cup of sugar, chocolate chips and 1 tsp of vanilla plus 1 tsp of peppermint to the dough. I also used parchment paper when baking. These are truly delicious!
Awesome. A quick and easy recipe. My son (14) made them by himself. He used about 1 c crushed peppermint candy (because kids love candy), 1.5-2 T dough for each cookie and skipped the glaze. Baked on parchment. They are soft (I dislike crunchy) and very yummy. I can’t stop eating them!
They came out very well! Although I did have to bake it a little longer since they were not completely done in the middle. Maybe 5-8 mins extra.
Won’t be making these again. To us there was no flavor such as almond or vanilla in the cookie. Rolling them was a pain, along with the dunking in icing & extra crushed candy canes, but that was because of my hand problems, especially trying to crush the candy canes with a rolling pin. Other than these get the candy canes they are very similar to Russian Tea cookies which I love, but I also put almond in them instead of vanilla.
I must have done something wrong, our cookies turned out rock hard.
Absolutely fantastic cookies. I changed nothing. They were perfect.
I made this according to the recipe but for extra flavor, added 1 teaspoon of peppermint extract and a couple hands full off semi-sweet chocolate chips. I think without that, it would have been flavorless. Cookie turned out nice and tender. I had to bake a little longer because the dough was very cold.
so easy and not much time . fantastic!! will be adding this every year. SHOUT OUT to pchanner for sharing..
Great, Easy to make, cookie. As some suggested, I increased the sugar to just under a cup, added 1/2 tsp peppermint extract and ‘if it’s worth baking, it’s worth adding 1 tsp vanilla’. Wonderful flavor!
So yummy
Taste good.
awesome cookies, just make sure you get plenty of candy in them 🙂
Definitely add the peppermint extract that others recommended. I didn’t have any of the extract on hand and wanted to get some cookies done, so I made as directed. After tasting them out of the oven I would agree the flavor is very mild; so off to the store I went for peppermint extract (which I added to the glaze). Next time I will add to the dough instead and may even try adding some baking cocoa. I think the glaze and crushed candy canes will look even more stunning against a dark chocolate background.
These are delicious. I had to bake mine almost twice the time in the recipe, but maybe my cookie balls were bigger.
No
After mixing the ingredients (I followed the recipe verbatim), I wound up with a very dry powder for my “dough.” Usually I never alter a recipe the first time I make it, but there was literally no way to roll balls out of it. So I mixed in two additional eggs (making a total of three eggs) and this created the perfect ball-rolling consistency — everything was smooth sailing from there. The final cookie was somehow light and moist at the same time. They might be a tad boring, but like another reviewer said, the icing/topping made all the difference!
Tasty! In my oven, they come out better if I put the tray on the top track and shield it with an empty tray on the bottom rack.
I liked this recipe a lot. It’s very easy and if you like peppermint it’s tasty. I did use 1 cup sugar added a teaspoon of vanilla and 1/8 teas of peppermint extract to the dough. I used milk instead of water for the frosting and added about 1/4 teaspoon peppermint extract. Very easy and good.