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Soft Peppermint Sugar Cookies
These buttery Soft Peppermint Sugar Cookies are simple, delicious, and topped with pretty pink peppermint icing and crushed candy canes.
Ingredients
For the Cookie Dough:
For the Icing:
Instructions
To make the Cookies
- Step 1
Preheat the oven to 350℉. Line baking sheets with parchment paper.
- Step 2
In a large bowl, cream together the softened butter, sugar, and brown sugar for 1 minute using an electric handheld mixer or a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment on high speed.
- Step 3
Add the egg, vanilla, and peppermint extract and continue creaming until fluffy. Add the flour and baking soda and mix at low speed just until fully incorporated.
- Step 4
Scoop the cookie dough using a medium-sized cookie dough scoop onto the prepared baking sheets, placing each cookie 2 inches apart to allow room for spreading.
- Step 5
Bake in the preheated oven for 10-12 minutes or until slightly golden around the edges. Let cool fully before topping with the icing.
To make the Icing
- Step 6
In a small bowl, whisk together the melted butter, icing sugar, vanilla and peppermint extract, and food coloring, adding the milk until a smooth icing with a consistency that you can drizzle is reached.
- Step 7
Add icing to a ziplock bag (or piping bag) and drizzle or spoon and spread over the cooled cookies. Top with crushed candy canes while the icing is still wet. Enjoy!
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