Christmas in a Cookie
You might remember Christmas in a Bowl. Layers of homemade brownies, white chocolate peppermint mousse, and dark chocolate pudding. It’s decadent, rich, and a must-have this time of year. But I’ve decided to extend the Christmas in a Bowl family. At 12:25 early yesterday afternoon, Christmas in a Cookie was born. The labor was quick. Much faster than Christmas in a Bowl. She’s tiny but packs a festive punch.
She may look a bit familiar as I based her off of her cousin—Salted Dark Chocolate Nutella Cookie. She lost her nutella filling, rightly so, and gained a white chocolate peppermint ganache. I think, if Christmas were a cookie, it would taste something like this.
Ingredients
Instructions
- Make cookies. Preheat oven to 375°. Line baking sheets with Silpat or parchment paper.
- Whisk together flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, and baking powder. Set aside.
- Cream together butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Mix in egg.
- Slowly mix in flour mixture until evenly incorporated.
- Roll dough into tablespoon-sized balls. Flatten balls with the bottom of a glass, about 2 1/4-inches in diameter. Use extra flour on the bottom of the cup if sticking occurs. Sprinkle with sea salt. Bake 12 up on a sheet leaving 1-inch space between each cookie. Minor spreading will occur.
- Bake for 7 minutes. Cool for 1 minute on baking sheet and carefully transfer to a cooling rack.
- Allow to cool completely.
- Make ganache. Add white chocolate chips, peppermints, and butter to a heat proof bowl. Heat cream in a saucepan over medium-high heat until simmering.
- Pour over chocolate chip mixture and whisk until combined. Allow to cool and thicken, about 1 hour. Stir occasionally.
- Spread ganache over half of the cookies. Sprinkle with additional peppermints. Top with cookie. Store in an airtight container. Cookies are best after resting overnight. The ganache softens them up nicely.
Notes
• White chocolate can be finicky. If it doesn't melt completely, add mixture back into the saucepan and continue to heat.
• Small candy cane crush the easiest. Use the flat side of a meat mallet to crush.
• To speed up the ganache cooling process, set over a bowl of ice water.
I love the idea of ‘Christmas in a cookie’ and this really is it. Gorgeous pink ganache in the middle too
I wonder if dark chocolate could be substituted with a few drops of peppermint oil instead of the candy. Can you tell that I am a complete and total choco-haulic?
i am definitely going to make these.
question: the instructions mention oats, but there is no mention of said oats in the ingredient list?
Ack! It’s fixed. The recipe is based off of the Nutella Cookies that have oats in them. Forgot to pull it out. Thanks for bringing this to my attention!
What kind of white chocolate do you use. I am always wary of white chocolate, thinking it is mostly fat and not really ‘real’ chocolate. I like the idea of using dark chocolate, what do you think Mel?
I’m with you. I typically buy Ghirardelli or Trader Joe’s White Chocolate.
Love this idea! A perfect Christmas cookie!
These look beautiful! I love the chocolate peppermint combo.
Yup, if Christmas could be a cookie, it would definitely be this one! Love the combination of chocolate, white chocolate and peppermint. Pretty much screams Christmas
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These look amazing. I love your use of personification when referring to these cookies and other creations (i.e: christmas in a bowl). It truly does seem as if these cookies were born and started to live a life of their own.
These cookies are absolutely amazing looking!!! I love the month of December because there are so many cookie recipes.
Beautiful photography!!!
These DO look like Christmas in cookie form. They’re so pretty
These might be the prettiest cookies EVER.
As if I needed a reason to love cookies more. *hehe* These are so pretty! I think I’ll make these for my work christmas party mid-month.
The bits of crushed peppermint is a stroke of genius!
These cookies look like they need to find their way onto our Christmas cookie platter. Like NOW!
I would have to agree
what a great combo of ingredients- loveeed the idea of crushed peppermint on top. It certainly screams xmas.
Those are incredibly beautiful. There’s almost nothing I like more than chocolate + mint.
Same here! I am a mint + peppermint junkie.
My mind is blown. The colors! The mint! YES.
Hi Melissa…. I work with your Dad…. I just watched your segment on Connecticut Style!! You did a GREAT job!!! You’re so darn CUTE!! Keep up the great work!!! I definitely want to try these cookies!! (and your cranberry sauce too!!)
Hi Ann! Thanks for your encouragement and support! You are too good to me. I’m blushing! I’ll have to send my dad with some goodies to work next time he is in town.
OOOOO – DEAL!!! (FYI…. he’ll be here the end of January!!) hee hee hee…
Sweet idea! Also your other related posts seem great for Xmas!
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I decided to make these for a cookie exchange
..currently waiting for my ganache to cool. Wondering if I didn’t get it hot enough or maybe the peppermint pieces weren’t small enough because they aren’t fully melting into the ganache. Still super excited about them though!
White chocolate can be finicky and doesn’t melt quite as easily. You can heat the ganache back up, or just leave it. It’ll soften as it sits. These cookies are very forgiving. Hope you love them!
It was the peppermint not the white chocolate that wasn’t melting but all seemed find in the end! I put the ganache in the fridge overnight because it wasn’t cooling fast enough and I wanted to get to bed!!!!! Put them together this morning and they’re ready to be exchanged this afternoon! A little drippy on the ganache but I tasted one (I couldn’t give away the broken one
) and it was yummy! Thanks for this recipe. I think I’ll be making Christmas in a bowl for a party in January.
Do you think I can save the ganache? I made a double batch since I made double the cookie dough and have a TON left. Would it keep in the fridge for a while?
You can totally save the ganache. I kept it out on my counter for a week. It would for sure save longer in the fridge. And the peppermint pieces don’t all melt. It gives a nice little crunch although it softens the longer it sits.
nothing like a late night scoop of ganache on a spoon….. YUM!
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