New Recipe Alert: Peppermint Chocolate Thumbprint Cookies

Peppermint Chocolate Thumbprint Cookies
Ingredients

• 1/2 cup butter
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 teaspoon mint extract
• 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 2/3 cup cocoa
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
• 28 unwrapped peppermint kisses

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Cream butter & both sugars with mixer. Add eggs one at a time and mix just until incorporated. Mix in mint extract.
3. Combine flour, cocoa, salt, baking powder and baking soda in a medium bowl. Add 1/2 cup dry mixture to butter mixture. Blending after each addition just until combined and scraping the side of mixer bowl as needed. Remove bowl from mixer and refrigerate for 10 minutes.
4. Butter hands and roll dough into 1 inch balls. Place on cookie sheet covered with parchment paper.
5. Bake for 10 minutes. Allow to cool for 5 minutes only. Press one peppermint kiss into the top of each cookie. Move to cookie cooling racks being very careful not to the touch the kiss.

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