White Chocolate Peppermint Candy Cane Sugar Cookies
Soft, sweet, and peppermint-y! These White Chocolate Peppermint Candy Cane Sugar Cookies are the perfect Christmas bake.
Ingredients
- ¾ cup white chocolate
- 2 cups all purpose flour
- ⅔ teaspoon baking powder
- ⅔ cup salted butter room temperature
- ½ cup granulated sugar
- 1 large egg room temperature
- 2 Tablespoons milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- ¼ teaspoon peppermint oil
- ¼ teaspoon red food coloring
Instructions
- Heat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Line 4 sheet pans with parchment paper. Set aside.
- Melt white chocolate in the microwave in 15 second bursts, stirring after each, until smooth. Set aside.
- Combine flour and baking powder. Set aside.
- Beat butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
- Add egg and beat until well combined.
- Stir in milk, vanilla. and peppermint oil. (Alternately, stir peppermint oil into half the dough when you divide it.)
- Add flour mixture and stir just until mixed.
- Stir in white chocolate.
- Divide dough in half.
- Add red color to half the dough (the peppermint half, if separated).
- Sprinkle work surface with powdered sugar.
- Pinch off a 1/2 ounce portion of white dough and roll into a 3-inch long log.
- Repeat with red dough.
- Gently twist the two doughs together.
- Roll gently into a 7-inch striped log.
- Gently lift with cookie spatula that has been sprinkled with powdered sugar.
- Place on prepared pan and form into candy cane shape.
- Bake for 7-8 minutes, until just starting to color.
- Allow to cool completely on the pans.
- Gently loosen and lift off with a cookie spatula.
Nutrition
Serving: 1cookieCalories: 126kcalCarbohydrates: 15gProtein: 2gFat: 7gSaturated Fat: 4gPolyunsaturated Fat: 1gMonounsaturated Fat: 2gTrans Fat: 1gCholesterol: 22mgSodium: 64mgPotassium: 29mgFiber: 1gSugar: 7gVitamin A: 172IUVitamin C: 1mgCalcium: 20mgIron: 1mg
Nutritional information is only an estimate. The accuracy of the nutritional information for any recipe on this site is not guaranteed.