These soft and chewy chocolate peppermint blossoms are easy to make in 25 minutes, are incredibly festive for Christmas and the holidays, and have the most delicious peppermint-mocha flavour perfect for this time of year!
I have so much fun making these cookies every year! They're so festive inside and out! The candy cane Hershey's Kiss brings all the Christmas feels, and the peppermint mocha flavour is a must for the holidays! I hope you add these if you make a holiday treat tray like me every Christmas!
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Ingredients
- FLOUR: This recipe uses all-purpose flour.
- BAKING SODA: Baking soda is going to help these cookies rise.
- COCOA POWDER: For all the chocolaty goodness.
- SALT: Just a dash to elevate the delicious flavour of these cookies.
- BUTTER: Unsalted or salted butter will do. I always opt for salted, and add the extra salt anyways. We all know salt makes everything taste just a tad better. But if you use salted butter, feel free to omit the extra salt.
- SUGAR: To sweeten up these cookies (and that unsweetened cocoa powder!).
- EGG: The egg will help give your cookies the structure they need.
- VANILLA EXTRACT: Just a hint of vanilla adds so much to desserts.
- HERSHEY’S CANDY CANE KISSES: The Hershey Kisses will be topped on each cookie and also chopped up and folded into the chocolaty cookie dough for some extra candy cane flavour.
Instructions
- Prepare: Preheat oven to 350° F. Line 1 or 2 baking sheets with parchment paper, and set aside. Unwrap the Hershey Kisses and roughly chop 8 of them. Set aside away from the oven to avoid melting.
- Mix: In a medium-sized bowl, combine and mix the flour, baking soda, salt and cocoa powder. Cream the butter, granulated, and brown sugar in a separate medium-sized bowl and then add the egg and vanilla extract.
- Combine: Slowly add the dry ingredients to the bowl of wet ingredients until fully combined and the texture is thick. Fold in the chopped Hershey Kisses.
- Shape the cookies: Roll the cookie dough into 1 tablespoon-sized balls, roll in the granulated sugar, and place them on a baking sheet at least 1.5 inches apart.
- Bake: Bake for 7-9 minutes. Once removed from the oven, allow the cookies to sit for 1 minute before pressing a Hershey Kiss on top of the cookie.
- Cool: Move to a cookie rack to completely cool.
Related Recipes
If you love holiday blossom cookies, you should also try these easy 3 ingredient peanut butter blossoms.
Some other chocolate peppermint cookies you may want to check out are these chocolate dipped shortbread cookies too!
Some similar crinkle cookies you may also like are these chocolate crinkle cookies, gingerbread crinkle cookies, and these fudgy crinkle brownie cookies.
More Christmas and Holiday cookies you'll also love are these soft cream cheese frosted gingerbread cookies, shortbread cookies recipe, and thumbprint cookies with jam recipe too!
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Chocolate Peppermint Blossoms
- Total Time: 25 minutes
- Yield: 26
- Diet: Vegetarian
Description
These chocolate peppermint blossoms are full of that classic peppermint mocha flavour everyone loves having during the holidays.
Ingredients
- Flour (1 & ¼ Cups)
- Baking Soda (1 Teaspoon)
- Cocoa Powder (½ Cup)
- Salt (¼ Teaspoon)
- Butter, at Room Temperature (½ Cup)
- Brown Sugar (½ Cup)
- Granulated Sugar (½ Cup)
- Egg (1)
- Vanilla (1 Teaspoon)
- Hershey’s Candy Cane Kisses (26 For Topping Cookies, 8 Roughly Chopped)
- Extra Granulated Sugar, For Rolling Cookies (3 Tablespoons)
Instructions
- Prepare: Preheat oven to 350° F. Line 1 or 2 baking sheets with parchment paper, and set aside. Unwrap the Hershey Kisses and roughly chop 8 of them. Set aside away from the oven to avoid melting.
- Mix: In a medium-sized bowl, combine and mix the flour, baking soda, salt and cocoa powder. Cream the butter, granulated, and brown sugar in a separate medium-sized bowl and then add the egg and vanilla extract.
- Combine: Slowly add the dry ingredients to the bowl of wet ingredients until fully combined and the texture is thick. Fold in the chopped Hershey Kisses.
- Shape the cookies: Roll the cookie dough into 1 tablespoon-sized balls, roll in the granulated sugar, and place them on a baking sheet at least 1.5 inches apart.
- Bake: Bake for 7-9 minutes. Once removed from the oven, allow the cookies to sit for 1 minute before pressing a Hershey Kiss on top of the cookie.
- Cool: Move to a cookie rack to completely cool.
Notes
Use softened butter. For this recipe, you need to cream together the butter and sugars for the cookie dough batter, and the only way to do this is if your butter is at room temperature. If it's too cold or if its melts, you won’t be able to cream it. If you forgot to pull your butter out, no worries! Just microwave it for 10-15 seconds until it becomes slightly soft.
Wait 1 minute before adding the Hershey Kiss on the cookie. This 1 minute is SO important because if you place the Hershey Kiss on the cookie too soon it will completely melt into a sad blob (I know from experience…) and if you place it too late it won’t stick!
Move your cookies to a cooling rack. Try to do this a couple of minutes after placing your Hershey Kiss, this will also help keep the chocolate from melting into a blob.
Don’t roll all the cookies in sugar. This is a preference thing! Some people aren’t as fond of extra sugar on the outside, so I always roll half in sugar and the other half I leave plain and both versions taste amazing!
Nutrition facts are estimates only.
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 10 minutes
- Category: cookies, Dessert, holiday
- Method: Bake
- Cuisine: American
Susan says
Made these tonight! The directions were so easy to follow. I replaced the peppermint kisses with cookies and cream as my son can't eat mint and they were absolutely delicious! Highly recommend trying these. Both rolled in sugar and without. So good!
Andrea says
I'm so glad you found these easy to make and I love your idea to try them with cookies and cream kisses! They must have been delish and i'll have to try for myself too!
Ted says
Very straight forward and easy recipe to follow. The resulting cookies were very yummy. Thanks for a wonderful recipe and happy holidays1
Andrea says
So glad you enjoyed them! Happy holidays 🙂