Peppermint Bark Sugar Cookies
These Peppermint Bark Sugar Cookies are perfect for the holiday season! Soft, slightly chewy, pepperminty and chocolatey. Yum.
Servings 24 cookies
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter
- 1 1/4 cup granulated sugar
- 1 large egg
- 1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- 2 1/2 cups all purpose flour
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1 cup chopped chocolate peppermint bark
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 350 degrees F.
- Chop the chocolate peppermint bark into small chunks. Set aside.1 cup chopped chocolate peppermint bark
- Using an electric mixer cream the butter and sugar together until soft and fluffy. This will take 10-15 minutes. Make sure to the scrape the sides of the bowl several times during this mixing.1 cup butter, 1 1/4 cup granulated sugar
- Once the sugar and butter mixture is fluffy, add the egg and vanilla. Mix well.1 large egg, 1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- In a separate bowl whisk together the flour, baking powder and salt.2 1/2 cups all purpose flour, 2 tsp baking powder, 1/4 tsp salt
- Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and mix well.
- Stir in the chopped peppermint bark.
- Roll the cookie dough into 1 1/2 inch balls.
- Place the dough balls on a parchment paper lined cookie sheet about 1 1/2 inches apart, and flatten the tops slightly (see picture above).
- Tip! I like to add a few extra chunks of peppermint bark to the tops of each cookie before baking (it looks nice).
- Bake for 10 minutes (the edges should be only slightly golden).
- Let the cookies cool on a wire rack.