Holiday Recipes - Completing Chocolate Peppermint Cookies

Ingredients

2 sticks of unsalted softened butter
3/4 cup of granulated sugar
1 large egg yolk
1 teaspoon of vanilla extract
2 cups of all purpose flour
1/2 cup of unsweetened Dutch process cocoa powder
1/2 teaspoon of baking powder
1/2 teaspoon of salt
1 stick of softened unsalted butter
1/2 cup of confectioner sugar
1/2 teaspoon of peppermint extracts

Instructions

1. Mix the butter and sugar together at medium speed. Add the egg yolk and vanilla extract and mix for 30 seconds.

2. Add the flour, cocoa powder, baking powder and salt and mix on low speed.

3. Press the dough into plastic wrap, packing it down as thin as possible and place it in the fridge for an hour or two.

4. To make the peppermint filling, combine the sugar and butter and mix them at medium speed. Add the peppermint extract.

5. Lightly dust the counter top and roll the dough out. Cut the dough into wafer-thin cookies. Place the cookies on a baking sheet.

6. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and bake the cookies for 10-15 minutes. Let the cookies cool and spread the peppermint filling over half of them. Take the other half of the cookies and place them on top, forming a sandwich. Add crushed peppermint to the outer edge of the filling.