When you 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! Considered one of 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 suppose sweet canes – and all peppermint desserts – style like toothpaste. I’m not a kind of folks… and because you’re right here studying this put up 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 much like my traditional chocolate chip cookie recipe, with a number 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 recommend subbing peppermint extract with almond extract or every other number of extracts. When you don’t like peppermint extract, you could omit it and simply add the crushed sweet canes or crushed peppermint candies.
- You might scale back the vanilla extract to 2 teaspoons, however the cookies can 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 in case you 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
- Deliver your eggs and butter to room temperature at the least 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 normally 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.
- Be certain to area the cookie dough balls at the least 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 recommend letting these cookies cool for at the least quarter-hour on the baking sheet. Additionally, please take into account the baking time is simply an estimate. Your baking time could also be roughly relying on quite a few elements.
Can I Freeze Sweet Cane Cookies?
Sure, you’ll be able to freeze these sweet cane cookies for as much as 2 months! You possibly can 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 potential, and seal. Freeze till wanted, as much as 2 months.
- When baking from frozen, I recommend thawing the cookie dough within the fridge for 4 hours or as much as 48 hours. Then bake as directed. You might 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 potential, seal the bag, and freeze for as much as 2 months.
Keep away from Pre-Crushed Sweet Canes
Though crushing sweet canes could be a bit messy and requires some elbow grease, I recommend it over pre-crushed sweet canes. Pre-crushed sweet canes are sometimes too sticky, crushed too small, and don’t soften properly 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 purpose they leaked extra purple meals coloring into the cookie dough. This gave them an unattractive coloration and general look.
When you can’t discover sweet canes, be at liberty to make use of peppermint candies as a substitute. To crush them, I normally use a small hammer, rolling pin, wine bottle, or my youngsters stainless-steel water bottle.
You don’t must be betty crocker to bake the BEST sweet cane cookies! These are tremendous simple, made with fundamental components, and positive to be an enormous hit with anybody who loves sweet canes and cookies.
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