{Chocolate Peppermint Chip Cookies}

I'm not sure if it's because it's in our name, or because 'tis the season for candy canes...

 but lately I've been obsessed with

 PEPPERMINT.

So when my friend Carie, the best cookie baker I know, shared her recipe with me, I knew I was in big trouble. As in the I-need-to-give-plates-of-these-cookies-to-neighbors-really-quick-or-I'll-eat-the-whole-batch-by-myself kind of trouble. But that hasn't stopped me from making them twice in a week!

You can only get these Andes Peppermint Crunch Baking Chips around Christmas time. I have seen them at Wal-Mart and King Soopers. The bag describes them as "Creamy Chips with Bits of Peppermint Candy." Let me tell you...these things are magical. They give just the right amount of peppermint flavor, and the lightest, tiniest, perfect-est crunch. You must try them to see what I mean!

{Chocolate Peppermint Chip Cookies}

1 1/2 sticks butter

2/3 cup sugar

2/3 cup brown sugar

2 eggs

1 tsp vanilla

1/2 cup cocoa powder

1 tsp baking soda

1/2 tsp salt

2 1/2 cups flour

5 oz (1/2 bag) Andes Peppermint Crunch Baking Chips

Cream butter and sugars, and then add eggs and vanilla. Gradually add dry ingredients. Roll into balls and flatten slightly with the palm of your hand:

Bake at 350* for 10 minutes.

These chocolate cookies are delicious on their own, or rolled in sugar, or with white  or regular chocolate chips. Pretty much anything you add would be good, because this is a fabulous recipe.

Chewy goodness with just the right chocolate flavor.

Thanks, Carie!

Let me know if you try them!

--Tammy

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