These cookies will absolutely rock your holiday lovin’ world.  They are lightly crisp, triple hitting chocolate decadence AND…and this is a big AND…they have natural peppermint added to the batter and lovely candy cane dust on top.  You will not be disappointed.  In fact, you will love me for these!

I know, I know; I told you all that I was taking a two week hiatus from blogging. Ok.  So I lied.  I added this new half-baked post (pun totally intended!). In other words, sort of a half-post if you will.  I baked the cookies, snapped the pictures, but I absolutely will not write anything of substance.  I promised my family I would not post for two weeks.  I have a problem.  It turns out I am addicted to blogging.  What’s a girl to do?

Now, I was crossing my fingers when I told them that I was taking a two week break from blogging, so perhaps this is totally legit.  This morning I baked these absolutely worth dying for “Death by Chocolate” peppermint cookies for my daughter’s teachers and felt that it was my duty to share it with you,  my peeps.

So…with no further ado…here they are.  I have included a link to when I first posted the Death by Chocolate Cookies from my all-time favorite cookbook in the world, Death by Chocolate by Marcel Desaulniers (well, technically it’s tied for first with Nancy Baggett’s  All-American Cookie Cookbook).  Sorry Marcel, I cannot tell a lie.   Well, on second thought…

Recipe:

Peppermint Death by Chocolate Cookies
Adapted from Death by Chocolate, by Marcel Desaulniers

For the Recipe, please click the link to my previous post and add 1/4 teaspoon natural peppermint extract when adding the vanilla extract.  Sprinkle the candy cane dust on top of the cookies when they FIRST come out of the oven.  Use candy cane dust if you can find it or crush candy canes when you are feeling particularly unnerved by Christmas shopping.  Simply place three unwrapped candy canes in a large ziploc bag and crush them with your meat mallet.   A food processor could work, but my thought is that it may not be a great thing to do it, and therefore I would go for the hand crushing option.