Blog Fail/Christmas Cookies

Ok, so I failed miserably at the Pumpkin a day recipe challenge...oops! But you know what... I'm in law school!! That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it!

Anyways, finals ended on the ninth and believe me I have been baking since (and before) then, after all I hate studying.

So I'll just start catching up for December Christmas Cookies. Now I must remind you! I'm leaving on a cruise on the 24th...so that's when the cookies end!!

Alrighty, we're going to start with...

Chocolate Peppermint Cookies!
These were a request from Robert and I couldn't find a recipe I liked, so this is my own creation!! How fun!!

Ingredients
1 C Butter
1 3/4 C Sugar
2 Eggs
2 TBS Peppermint Extract
2 C AP flour
1 C Cocoa (Dutch Process)
1 TSP Baking soda
1/2 TSP Salt
1 C Chocolate Chips

Process:
Set oven to 375 F
In a bowl mix together flour, cocoa, baking soda, and salt.
Cream butter and sugar together until light and fluffy. Add in eggs and peppermint extract and mix until thoroughly combined. Slowly add dry ingredients to wet, you might want to do this in installments. When then is all combined and looks like cookie dough stir in the chocolate chips. Now, I added crushed peppermints! You can add these to the batter, or roll the cookies in the crushed peppermints, or sprinkle on top after baking...really whatever you want.
Now scoop them onto a parchment or silicone mat lined cookie pan and into your pre heated oven.

Bake for 7-9 minutes or until the cookies look done on the bottom. I check this by lifting one edge with a spatula. Since these are chocolate it's harder to tell, but feel the center, you don't want your finger to sink it, but you don't want it to be hard either (that's burned).