Peppermint Brownie Crackle Cookies

The Christmas Season is upon us, and with it comes a ton of cookie baking, which I always look forward to.

I have three kinds of cookies that I like to make for Christmas, from scratch, but there is ONE cookie recipe that uses boxed brownie mix and is an absolute all star in my repertoire.

Brownie mix can make a great, dense, fluffy cookie, but in this recipe we want that super crispy brownie-edge crunch, and this recipe delivers. Its like cookie-shaped brownie brittle, with an amazing sheen of peppermint on the bottom. Absolute Yum

I wrote this recipe in 2018 and have been tweaking it every year since, finally arriving in this year of our Lord 2021, at the final version, which I'm so excited to share.

These cookies come out deliciously thin, crispy, and crunchy. Chocolatey, with the perfectly thin layer of crispy peppermint candy on the bottom. Like brownie brittle, but with a Christmas twist.

I'm very excited to share this recipe and I hope you give it a try. You can find the whole written recipe after the video, if you would like to print it out.

Thanks for watching, and Merry Christmas!

https://youtu.be/498sxCsJJgQ

Ingredients:

1 box brownie mix

1 tsp. baking powder

2 large eggs

1/2 c. canola oil

1 box Junior Mints

1 can cooking spray

Tinfoil or Parchment paper

Preheat oven to 320° and line two baking sheets with tin foil or parchment paper. Cover liberally in cooking spray.

In a large bowl combine brownie mix, baking powder, eggs, and oil. Stir until combined.

Spray your hands with cooking spray. Using your hands, make a small ball of dough and place on cookie tray. You will have space for 11 cookies per tray when they have spread out t their final footprint. I like to do a row of 4, a row of three, and a row of four.

Press a Junior Mint into the center of each ball, and press down to the bottom of the cookie.

Dust cookies with fine granulated sugar.

Bake in preheated 320° oven for 15 minutes.

Let cookies cool fully on baking sheet. You can put the whole sheet in the refrigerator to speed this up. Cookies must be fully cooled before removal.

When totally cooled, lift one corner of the foil, and coax the cookie and foil away from the tray. Then peel away the foil from the cookie. DO NOT use a spatula to remove cookies.

Merry Christmas and Happy Baking!

Peas out!