Peppermint Bark Cookies Recipe

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Christmas cookies!  That is one hugely popular Christmas tradition.  Every year the number of Pinterest pins that have Christmas cookies in them probably reached 100 million.  So every year I get asked at some point or another to attend a cookie exchange or supply cookies for a teacher cookie bar.  Well, my own mom came up with the ultimate, easiest and most tasty cookie ever.

My mom is the most amazing women at simplifying things in life.  I am assuming it was all those years she worked fulltime and still had to take care of all the house duties at the same time (my dad is a wonderful man, but it’s true women still do most of the household duties when both parents work).  Anyway I don’t know what was the reason she needed to simplify her cookie baking, but simplify she did. And after I ate one they became a christmas cookie staple.

They take probably 20 minutes to make and cool.  I have made the peppermint bark cookies every year since my mom gave me the recipe.

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Peppermint Bark Cookies

Make Peppermint bark that can be exchanged at your next christmas cookie exchange

Prep Time 20 minutes
Servings 24 cookies

Ingredients

  • 1 box Nathan’s Famous Chocolate Wafers
  • 5 peppermint candy canes
  • 5 drops of peppermint essential oil
  • 4 ounces of white chocolate candy coating

Instructions

  1. Prepare a 2 cookie sheets with cookie cooling racks on them.
  2. Place the candy canes in a ziploc bag and crush with a meat tenderizer mallet (or shoe)
  3. Melt the candy coating in a small bowl 300 seconds at a time, stir after each time until smooth.
  4. Add the peppermint essential oil to the candy coating
  5. With a spoon scoop a small scoop of candy coating onto a chocolate wafer and spread in a circular motion.
  6. Immediately after spreading the candy coating, sprinkle peppermint candy on top. (It helps to have a cookie buddy for this step)
  7. Place on the cookie sheet/rake and let cool.
Annette Barney

Annette Barney

I live in the mountains of Utah. Yes, I am also a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints I love hot pink, XC skiing, running, hot chocolate, yoga, romance novels,traveling for fun, volunteering and, of course, origami. I am a woman, a mom, a wife and a daughter of God. I believe that everything tastes better with a little bacon or a little chocolate but not both.