Chocolate-Mint Drops
- Ready In:
- 45mins
- Ingredients:
- 8
- Yields:
-
2 dozen
- Serves:
- 8
ingredients
- 2 1⁄2 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips, halved (1 1/4 cup batches)
- 6 tablespoons flour
- 1⁄2 teaspoon baking powder
- 3⁄4 cup sugar
- 2 eggs
- 2 tablespoons dark corn syrup
- 1⁄2 teaspoon peppermint extract
- 1⁄2 cup peppermint candies, chopped or 1/2 cup candy cane, crushed
directions
- Heat oven to 350°F
- Line two large baking sheets with parchment paper.
- Melt half of the chocolate chips; set aside.
- Mix flour and baking powder together.
- In medium bowl, with electric mixer on medium, beat sugar, eggs, corn syrup, and extract until thick, about 3 minutes.
- Gradually beat in melted chocolate, then dry ingredients.
- Mix in remaining morsels; freeze dough for 10 minutes.
- Drop heaping tablespoonfuls of batter, 3" apart, on ungreased baking sheets (cookies will spread).
- Refrigerate remaining dough.
- Bake cookies 12 minutes.
- Quickly sprinkle tops with chopped candies; bake 3 to 5 minutes more, until cookies are softly set.
- Cool cookies on baking sheets 5 minutes.
- Transfer to wire racks and cool.
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Roosie
San Francisco, CA