Chocolate Candy Cane Cookies
These chocolate cookies, dipped into melted chocolate and topped with crushed candy cane boast the classic holiday flavour in one cookie!
Servings: 36
Ingredients
- 280g/2 cups plain/all purpose flour
- 60g/1/2 cup cocoa powder
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 250g/1 cup unsalted butter room temperature
- 200g/1 cup brown sugar
- 100g/1/2 cup white granulated sugar
- 2 eggs large
- 2 tsp This is an affiliate link.vanilla
- 150g/5 oz chocolate chips milk or dark
- 100g/3/5 oz dark chocolate melted
- 3-4 candy canes crushed
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 190C/375F. In a medium bowl combine the dry ingredients; flour, cocoa powder, baking soda and salt.
- In the bowl of a stand mixer, fitted with a paddle attachment, cream the butter with the brown and white sugar until light and fluffy, then beat in the egg and vanilla.
- Add the mixed dry ingredients to the butter and sugar mixture and start combining them on low speed. Stop once in a while, scrape the sides with a flexible spatula and continue beating until the dough forms. Mix in the chocolate chips and give everything a brief mix until the chocolate chips arewell incorporated into the cookie dough but do not overmix.
- Scoop the dough with a small cookie scoop and place the dough balls on parchment or silicone lined cookie sheet 1 inch apart as they will spread in the oven. Bake in the preheated oven for 8-10 minutes or until hard around the edges. Take out of the oven and transfer to a wire rack to cool. Repeat the process until all cookie dough is baked.
- Chop the candy canes or crush them with a rolling pin. The easiest way to do it is to put them in a ziplock bag, then pound with a rolling pin, so they don't fly everywhere. Melt the chocolate in a double boiler or in a microwave. Watch carefully if using a microwave. I tend to only melt in 40-50 seconds intervals to avoid burning.
- Dip half of each cookie into melted chocolate and place it on a cooling rack, then quickly sprinkle that part with crushed candy cane before the chocolate sets. Leave the cookies on the cooling rack until the chocolate hardens.
Nutrition
Calories: 155kcal | Carbohydrates: 19g | Protein: 2g | Fat: 9g | Saturated Fat: 5g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.3g | Monounsaturated Fat: 2g | Trans Fat: 0.2g | Cholesterol: 24mg | Sodium: 70mg | Potassium: 78mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 11g | Vitamin A: 188IU | Calcium: 16mg | Iron: 1mg