Peppermint Lace Cookies recipe

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Ingredients

1 cup butter, softened
1 cup confectioners' sugar
2 teaspoons peppermint extract
1 ¼ cups all-purpose flour
½ teaspoon salt
1 cup rolled oats
⅓ cup crushed peppermint candies
2 tablespoons confectioners' sugar, or as needed
1 tablespoon very finely crushed peppermint candies, or as needed

Nutrition Info

95.8 calories
carbohydrate: 11.3 g
cholesterol: 13.6 mg
fat: 5.3 g
fiber: 0.3 g
protein: 0.8 g
saturatedFat: 3.3 g
servingSize: -
sodium: 69.9 mg
sugar: 5.5 g
transFat: : -
unsaturatedFat: : -

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C).

  2. Beat butter and 1 cup confectioners' sugar in a large bowl until creamy and smooth, stir peppermint extract into butter mixture. Whisk flour and salt in a bowl and stir into butter mixture. Gently fold rolled oats and 1/3 cup crushed peppermint candies into the dough.

  3. Drop dough by teaspoonful onto ungreased baking sheets, leaving 3 inches between cookies, press cookies 1/4 inch thick with your fingertips.

  4. Bake in the preheated oven until cookies have lightly browned edges, 10 to 12 minutes. Let cookies cool on baking sheets for at least 5 minutes before removing to finish cooling on wire racks.

  5. Stir 2 tablespoons confectioners' sugar with 1 tablespoon very finely crushed peppermint candies in a small bowl, transfer to a fine-mesh wire strainer. Dust cooled cookies with peppermint candy mixture.

Recipe Yield

3 dozen cookies

Recipe Note

These are just like the oatmeal lace cookies, with that cool taste of peppermint. Great with a hot cup of tea.

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