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Peppermint Meltaways

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Peppermint meltaways are melt-in-your-mouth peppermint-flavored drop cookies with peppermint icing and crushed candy canes sprinkled on top.

A rectangle white platter with 12 peppermint meltaways. They're small round bite-sized cookies with pink icing and crushed peppermint candy canes on top. Several candy canes sit next to the platter and fake red beaded plant stems sit next to the cookies.

These little creamy bites of peppermint are perfect for cookie exchanges, serving at a Christmas party, or enjoying as a treat for Valentine’s Day.

Ingredients

Peppermint Cookies

  • Butter
  • Sour Cream
  • Confectioners’ Sugar
  • Peppermint Extract
  • All-Purpose Flour
  • Cornstarch
  • Milk
  • Pink Icing Gel or Food Coloring
  • Crushed Candy Canes
A white square platter with peppermint meltaways on it. One cookie has a bite taken out of it. In the background there's a small red mug with crushed candy canes in it.

How to Make Peppermint Meltaways

Peppermint Cookies

  • In a stand mixer, cream together butter and confectioners’ sugar. Add sour cream, peppermint extract flour, and cornstarch.
A large silver mixing bowl with peppermint meltaway cookie dough in a ball.
  • Chill dough in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.
  • Remove the dough from the fridge and preheat the oven to 350℉.
  • Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Use a small cookie scoop to scoop dough and form into equal-sized balls. Place the cookie dough balls on the pan spaced 1″ apart.
A silver KitchenAid baking sheet with a silicone mat topped with 13 cookie dough balls spaced apart on it.
A rectangle silver KitchenAid baking sheet with silicone mat topped with 13 baked meltaway cookies on it. They have no icing on them.
  • Bake in the oven for 8-10 minutes until the tops are set and spring back when lightly touched. Place on a cooling rack.

Icing

  • Whisk together butter, milk, confectioners’ sugar, peppermint extract, and 1-3 drops of pink icing gel or food coloring in a bowl.
An overhead view of a work station with a rectangle platter of peppermint meltaway cookies, a wire cooling rack with plain cookies, a round white bowl of pink icing, and a small round white bowl of crushed candy canes.
  • Dip each cooled cookie in the icing and sprinkle with crushed candy canes.
A white square platter with peppermint meltaways on it. In the background there's a small red mug with crushed candy canes in it.

Peppermint Meltaways

Tiffany
Peppermint meltaways are melt-in-your-mouth peppermint-flavored drop cookies with peppermint icing and crushed candy canes sprinkled on top.
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Prep Time 12 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes
Refrigeration Time 30 minutes
Course Desserts
Cuisine American
Servings 26 Cookies
Calories 116 kcal

Ingredients
  

Peppermint Cookies

  • ½ cup Butter
  • ½ cup Sour Cream
  • ½ cup Confectioners' Sugar
  • 1 teaspoon Peppermint Extract
  • 1 ¼ cup All-Purpose Flour
  • ½ cup Cornstarch

Icing

  • 2 tablespoons Butter
  • 2 tablespoons Milk
  • ½ teaspoon Peppermint Extract
  • 1 ½ cups Confectioners' Sugar
  • 1-3 drops Pink Icing Gel or Food Coloring
  • 2-3 Crushed Candy Canes

Instructions
 

Peppermint Cookies

  • In a stand mixer, cream together butter and confectioners' sugar. Add sour cream, peppermint extract flour, and cornstarch.
  • Chill dough in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.
  • Remove the dough from the fridge and preheat the oven to 350℉.
  • Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Use a small cookie scoop to scoop dough and form into equal-sized balls. Place the cookie dough balls on the pan spaced 1" apart.
  • Bake in the oven for 8-10 minutes until the tops are set and spring back when lightly touched. Place on a cooling rack.

Icing

  • In a bowl, whisk together butter, milk, confectioners' sugar, peppermint extract, and 1-3 drops of pink icing gel or food coloring.
  • Dip each cooled cookie in the icing and sprinkle with crushed candy canes.

Nutrition

Calories: 116kcalCarbohydrates: 16gProtein: 1gFat: 5gSaturated Fat: 3gPolyunsaturated Fat: 0.2gMonounsaturated Fat: 1gTrans Fat: 0.2gCholesterol: 14mgSodium: 37mgPotassium: 16mgFiber: 0.2gSugar: 9gVitamin A: 165IUVitamin C: 0.04mgCalcium: 8mgIron: 0.3mg

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