If you happen to love sweet canes and chocolate, you’ll LOVE these chocolate chip sweet cane cookies! Made with peppermint extract, crushed sweet canes, and white and darkish chocolate chips… these cookies style like peppermint bark! One among my favourite simple Christmas cookie recipes.
In my expertise, you both love sweet canes otherwise you hate ’em. I do know lots of people who assume sweet canes – and all peppermint desserts – style like toothpaste. I’m not a type of folks… and because you’re right here studying this publish about sweet cane cookies, I’ll assume you’re not both.
I completely love sweet canes! And thought including crushed sweet canes to cookie dough would style higher than making these twisted cookies which can be in a sweet cane form. So I made a decision to experiment with each choices and to not toot my very own horn, however boy was I proper!
Sweet Cane Cookie Recipe
This recipe is kind of just like my traditional chocolate chip cookie recipe, with a couple of twists!
- For starters, we skip browning the butter as a result of the peppermint extract provides sufficient taste.
- Secondly, we add peppermint extract, which provides simply sufficient peppermint taste with out making these cookies style like toothpaste.
- I don’t counsel subbing peppermint extract with almond extract or every other number of extracts. If you happen to don’t like peppermint extract, chances are you’ll omit it and simply add the crushed sweet canes or crushed peppermint candies.
- It’s possible you’ll cut back the vanilla extract to 2 teaspoons, however the cookies could have a much less wealthy taste.
- As an alternative of chocolate chips, we’ll use chopped up chunks of semi-sweet chocolate AND white chocolate. This offers the cookies a peppermint bark vibe.
- Lastly, we’ll add crushed sweet canes to the cookie dough. Crushed peppermint candies can even work nice if you happen to can’t discover sweet canes.
- I just like the traditional sweet canes with purple meals coloring however the inexperienced and purple sweet canes can even work nice.
Sweet Cane Cookie Dough
- Convey your eggs and butter to room temperature not less than half-hour earlier than you start baking. Chilly components don’t bond and can create a clumpy and uneven sweet cane cookie dough.
- You’ll want a stand mixer or an electrical hand mixer to make the sweet cane cookie dough,
- Beat the butter and sugars till gentle and fluffy, this often takes about 3 minutes.
- When you add the flour, be sure to combine the cookie dough on low, and solely till mixed. Over blended cookie dough shall be powerful and dry.
- You don’t want to relax this cookie dough earlier than rolling the dough. But when it feels too sticky you’ll be able to chill it for as much as 4 hours.
- To bake, you’ll want two baking sheets lined with parchment paper.
- Make certain to house the cookie dough balls not less than 2-inches aside for spreading. In the event that they’re too shut aspect by aspect, they’ll bake into one massive cookie.
You don’t want to chill fully, however I do counsel letting these cookies cool for not less than quarter-hour on the baking sheet. Additionally, please consider the baking time is simply an estimate. Your baking time could also be roughly relying on numerous components.
Can I Freeze Sweet Cane Cookies?
Sure, you’ll be able to freeze these sweet cane cookies for as much as 2 months! You’ll be able to freeze the cookie dough and bake later. Or you’ll be able to freeze the baked cookies, then seize one out of the freezer anytime a craving strikes.
- To freeze the cookie dough, scoop the cookie dough onto a baking sheet and freeze till strong. The switch the cookie dough balls right into a freezer-safe bag, squeeze as a lot air out as doable, and seal. Freeze till wanted, as much as 2 months.
- When baking from frozen, I counsel thawing the cookie dough within the fridge for 4 hours or as much as 48 hours. Then bake as directed. It’s possible you’ll want so as to add a couple of minutes onto the baking time, relying on how chilly the cookie dough is.
- To freeze baked cookies, merely allow them to cool fully, then place them in a freezer-safe bag. Squeeze as a lot air out as doable, seal the bag, and freeze for as much as 2 months.
Keep away from Pre-Crushed Sweet Canes
Though crushing sweet canes is usually a bit messy and requires some elbow grease, I counsel it over pre-crushed sweet canes. Pre-crushed sweet canes are sometimes too sticky, crushed too small, and don’t soften nicely in dessert recipes.
I did a aspect by aspect comparability of those cookies with hand crushed sweet canes vs the store-bought crushed sweet canes. The hand crushed sweet canes melted superbly into the cookies and tasted scrumptious. The pre-crushed sweet canes tasted synthetic and for some motive they leaked extra purple meals coloring into the cookie dough. This gave them an unattractive colour and total look.
If you happen to can’t discover sweet canes, be at liberty to make use of peppermint candies as an alternative. To crush them, I often use a small hammer, rolling pin, wine bottle, or my children chrome steel water bottle.
You don’t should be betty crocker to bake the BEST sweet cane cookies! These are tremendous simple, made with primary components, and certain to be an enormous hit with anybody who loves sweet canes and cookies.
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