Chocolate Peppermint Bar Cookies
Created by Mikekey on November 14, 2013
- Servings: 32
- Prep Time: 25m
- Cook Time: 20m
- Recipe #11151
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter (softened)
- 3/4 cup dark brown sugar, firmly packed
- 1 large egg
- 1 cup semisweet chocolate chips
- 1 cup hard peppermint candies, coarsely crushed (candy canes will work)
How to Make
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Step 1: Preheat oven to 375F. Place rack in middle position of oven.
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Step 2: Line a 13-9 inch metal baking pan with 1 sheet of foil, allowing 2 inches of foil to hang over each end of pan. Butter foil, except for overhang.
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Step 3: Whisk together flour, cocoa, soda and salt in a small bowl.
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Step 4: Beat together butter and brown sugar in a large bowl with an electric mixer at high speed until pale and fluffy, about 3 minutes.
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Step 5: Beat in egg until combined.
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Step 6: Reduce speed to low and mix in flour mixture until just combined.
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Step 7: Stir in chocolate chips and peppermint candy pieces.
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Step 8: Spread dough evenly in pan and bake until puffed and beginning to pull away from sides of pan, about 20 minutes.
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Step 9: Cool completely in pan, then, lifting with foil, transfer to a cutting board.
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Step 10: Cut into bars and lift off foil with spatula.
Nutritional Facts
- Serving Size: 1 (26.3 g)
- Calories 83.9
- Total Fat - 4.8 g
- Saturated Fat - 2.9 g
- Cholesterol - 14.1 mg
- Sodium - 89.5 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 10.9 g
- Dietary Fiber - 1 g
- Sugars - 7.9 g
- Protein - 1.1 g
- Calcium - 8.2 mg
- Iron - 0.5 mg
- Vitamin C - 0.7 mg
- Thiamin - 0 mg