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Chocolate Peppermint Patty Cookies made with our Chocolate Decadence Cookie recipe
Photo by Leigh Beisch; food styling by Dan Becker

Chocolate Peppermint Patty Cookies

Prepare Chocolate Decadence Cookie recipe through step 1. Continue with step 2, using your palm to press dough balls into 1/4-in.-thick rounds. Bake as directed and let cool.

In a bowl, mix 3 cups powdered sugar, 4 tbsp. milk, and 3/4 tsp. peppermint extract. Spread 1 heaping tsp. peppermint icing onto the flat side of 1 cookie.

Top with flat side of a second cookie to form a sandwich, pressing together to squeeze filling to the edge. Roll edge of cookie in crushed and sifted candy canes. Makes 20.


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