Ingredient and Recipe Notes
Simple Ingredients – The dough is simple, with all the right things: butter (only REAL butter!), flour, eggs, baking powder, salt, and both vanilla and peppermint extracts.A Little Sparkle – Rolling the dough balls in sugar before they hit the cookie sheet gives these cookies a little sparkle and crunch. One of these days I’m going to try rolling them in candy cane sugar, which I just make by pulsing candy canes in a food processor until nice and fine.
How to Make Peppermint Sugar Cookies
You can eat them warm, or let them cool completely. These cookies stack well and work perfectly in little containers for gifting. If you really want to pull out all the stops- give them a little drizzle of chocolate. Too much would overwhelm the delicate flavors, but just a thin drizzle is absolutely perfect and makes them taste like peppermint bark. Happy Baking! Can I make these ahead of time? Albsolutely. Feel free to make them all the way through a day ahead of time, or make the dough, roll the balls, roll in sugar, and then store the dough balls in the fridge for a day or two. When ready to bake, simply let them sit at room temperature for a few minutes, then flatten each ball, top with candy cane pieces, and bake.
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