Thick fudge peppermint brownie cookies baked with chocolate chips and topped with a peppermint patty.
These delicious cookies have a fudgy brownie texture with a rich chocolate flavor. Creamy peppermint patties team up with these chocolate cookies to bring a dark chocolate and peppermint flavor to every bite!
Ingredients in Peppermint Brownie Cookies
- Unsweetened cocoa powder
- Instant coffee granules or espresso powder
- Unsalted butter
- Vegetable oil
- Granulated sugar
- Light brown sugar
- Egg
- Vanilla extract
- All purpose flour
- Baking powder
- Salt
- Semi sweet chocolate chips
- Peppermint patties
Peppermint Brownie Cookies Directions
Preheat the oven and prepare the cookie sheets- Preheat the oven to 350°F and line cookie sheets with parchment paper.
Mix the wet ingredients- In a large bowl, combine together the cocoa powder, melted butter and instant coffee granules or espresso powder (mix these together before adding the mixture to the bowl to allow the granules to melt), granulated sugar, brown sugar, and vegetable oil.
Next, beat in the vanilla extract and egg.
Combine the dry ingredients- In a separate bowl, stir together the all-purpose flour, baking powder, and salt.
Slowly add the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients until the dry ingredients are moistened. Avoid overmixing the dough to keep the cookies a brownie texture. Gently stir in the chocolate chips.
Scoop the cookies- Scoop using a #30 cookie scoop (or by 2 tablespoons full) onto the parchment paper-lined cookie sheet. Flatten the cookies with a back of a spoon. There is no baking soda in these brownie cookies so the cookies will not spread. Bake one cookie sheet at a time.
The cookies will be soft like a brownie hot out of the oven but will firm up as they cool.
Gently press a peppermint patty into the center of the cookies hot out of the oven. Allow the cookies to cool for 5 minutes before transferring them to a cooling rack. Store cooled coolies in an airtight container.
Alternately, crush peppermint candies and sprinkle on top of the cookies fresh out of the oven.
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Peppermint Brownie Cookies
Ingredients
- ½ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- ½ cup melted butter
- 1 teaspoon coffee or espresso powder
- 3 tablespoons vegetable oil
- ½ cup white granulated sugar
- ½ cup light brown sugar - packed
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 egg
- 1 ⅓ cups all purpose flour - spooned & leveled
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
- 20 Peppermint patties or crushed peppermints
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350°F and line cookie sheets with parchment paper.
- Melt the butter add the instant coffee granules or the espresso powder and stir.
- In a large bowl, combine together the cocoa powder, melted butter/coffee mixture, granulated sugar, brown sugar, and vegetable oil.
- Beat in the vanilla extract and egg.
- In a separate bowl, stir together the all-purpose flour, baking powder, and salt.
- Slowly add the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients until the dry ingredients are moistened. Avoid overmixing the dough to keep the cookies a brownie texture. Gently stir in the chocolate chips.
- Scoop using a #30 cookie scoop (or scoop by 2 tablespoonsful) onto the parchment paper-lined cookie sheet.
- Flatten the cookies with a back of a spoon. There is no baking soda in these brownie cookies so the cookies will not spread.
- Bake one cookie sheet at a time.
- Bake for 10-12 minutes. Do not overbake. They will continue baking as they cool.
- Gently press a peppermint patty into the center of the cookies hot out of the oven. Allow the cookies to cool for 5 minutes before transferring them to a cooling rack. Store cooled coolies in an airtight container.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutritional information is an estimate based on third-party calculations. Actual values may vary due to ingredients, measurements, and serving sizes.
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Ceil44 says
Wow, these are so delicious. I used crushed peppermint candies on top. I would love to try the patties next time...have to be fantastic. This cookie recipe will stay on my favorites box.