Naughty or Nice Cookies
Course:
Dessert, Cookies
Seasonal Event:
Christmas
INGREDIENTS:
Peppermint Sprinkle Cookies:
- 8 oz butter
- 14 oz sugar
- 1 1⁄2 t salt
- 2 eggs
- 2 t vanilla
- 1⁄2 t peppermint extract
- 15 oz flour
- 1 1⁄2 t baking powder
- red & white nonpareils, for sprinkling
Lump of Coal Cookies:
- 8 oz butter
- 7 oz sugar
- 7 oz brown sugar
- 1 1⁄2 t salt
- 2 eggs
- 1 t vanilla
- 12 oz black cocoa (not dark cocoa, but BLACK)
- 3⁄4 t baking soda
- 3⁄4 t baking powder
- 12 oz flour
- 10 oz semi-sweet chocolate chips
- 8 oz crush Oreos
- black sanding sugar
DIRECTIONS:
Peppermint Sprinkle Cookies:
- Cream butter and sugar; add eggs and vanilla.
- Mix dry ingredients; fold into butter/sugar mixture.
- Form into balls, refrigerate.
- Dip tops in nonpareils.
- Bake 350°F degrees for approximately 12 minutes (until top starts to crackle and barely brown on the edges).
Lump of Coal Cookies:
- Cream butter, sugar, & salt.
- Add eggs and vanilla.
- Add in cocoa powder.
- In a separate bowl, whisk flour, baking powder, baking soda together.
- Then fold into butter/sugar mixture.
- Fold in chocolate chips and crushed Oreos.
- Form into balls; refrigerate.
- Roll dough balls in black sanding sugar.
- Bake at 350°F (high convection) for about 12 minutes.