Red Velvet Peppermint Thumbprint cookies are soft, delicious, and filled with crushed creamy peppermint candies drizzled with a white chocolate icing. These are peppermint thumbprints are perfect christmas cookies for your next holiday party!
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❤️ Why you'll love it
Easy to make: no chilling of the dough require and the cookies do not spread.
Holiday gifts: these cookies make the perfect holiday hostess gifts wrapped up in pretty gift boxes and are a great addition to Christmas Cookie trays.
Easy to adapt: red velvet thumbprint cookies are easy to adapt and fill with your favorite fillings.
🥘 Ingredients
Red food coloring: choose a food coloring that is a gel base rather than water.
Peppermint extract: my very favorite brand is Adam's peppermint extract.
Baking cocoa powder: this gives the cookie a chocolate flavor.
Baking powder: I always recommend buying an aluminum free baking powder.
Andes Peppermint Crunch baking pieces: these are red and white pieces of candy, you can always buy the crunch bars and break them up.
White Dipping Chocolate: be picky choosing your white melting chocolate. Not white chocolate melts incredibly smooth. I have never had any issues with Baker's Corner Vanilla coating.
🔪 Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- In a medium bowl, using hand mixer on medium speed, mix butter and sugar until creamy. Add egg, food coloring, and extract. Mix until well combined.
- In a separate bowl, mix together 1-¼ cup flour, baking powder, and salt. Gradually mix flour mixture into butter mixture until combined.
- Shape cookies into 1" sized balls. Place cookie balls on baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Press indentation with thumb in center of ball.
- Bake for 12 minutes. Remove from oven and press back of teaspoon into center of cookie to form a more prominent thumbprint.
- Place 1 teaspoon Andes mint candy pieces in center of cookie. Return to oven and bake another 2-3 minutes.
- Remove from oven and transfer cookies to a wire rack. Cool completely.
- Melt white dipping chocolate in microwave according to directions. Drizzle over top of cookies. Let chocolate harden prior to storing.
🥄 Equipment
Medium mixing bowls
Electric hand mixer: to mix the ingredients.
Rubber scraper: to scrape down the sides of the bowl while mixing dough.
Baking sheet: for baking the cookies.
Parchment paper: to line the baking sheet and to catch any drips when icing the cookies.
Cooling rack: to completely cool the cookies by allowing air to circulate all around them.
🥫Storage
Room temperature: store cookies in an airtight container on the counter up to 5 days.
Freezer: store cookies in a freezer safe airtight container in the freezer up to 3 months.
📖 Variations
- Omit the peppermint candy and fill the completely cooled cookies with cream cheese frosting, then sprinkle with holiday sprinkles or crushed candy canes.
- Make these fit Valentine's day also by using the cream cheese filling and decorating with red, pink, and white valentine sprinkles.
💭 Tips
- Use the back of a tablespoon to press into the center of the hot cookie after cooking to reinforce the thumbprint.
- Place a sheet of parchment paper under the cooling rack to catch any drips from the chocolate drizzle.
- Place melted chocolate in a sandwich bag with a corner snipped off and drizzle the white chocolate over top of the cookies
📚 Related Recipes
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Peppermint Brownie Bites are fudgy brownies with peppermint patty candy baked inside!
These Eggnog Thumbprint Cookies have a rum flavored filling and sprinkled with fresh grated nutmeg.
These classic Raspberry Thumbprint Cookies can't be beat!
Another holiday classic are these Pecan Pie Thumbprint cookies.
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📖 Recipe
Red Velvet Thumbprint Cookies
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Ingredients
- ½ cup unsalted butter softened
- ½ cup granulated sugar
- 1 large egg
- 2 teaspoons red gel food coloring
- ½ teaspoons peppermint extract
- 1½ cup flour
- 2 tablespoon cocoa powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- ½ cup Andes peppermint crunch baking pieces
- White chocolate candy coating , optional
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- In a medium bowl, using hand mixer on medium speed, mix butter and sugar until creamy. Add egg, food coloring, and extract. Mix until well combined.
- In a separate bowl, mix together 1-¼ cup flour, baking powder, and salt. Gradually mix flour mixture into butter mixture until combined.
- Shape cookies into 1" sized balls. Place cookie balls on baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Press indentation with thumb in center of ball.
- Bake for 12 minutes. Remove from oven and press back of teaspoon into center of cookie to form a more prominent thumbprint.
- Place 1 teaspoon Andes mint candy pieces in center of cookie. Return to oven and bake another 2-3 minutes.
- Remove from oven and transfer cookies to a wire rack. Cool completely.
- Melt white dipping chocolate in microwave according to directions. Drizzle over top of cookies. Let chocolate harden prior to storing.
Susan Jones says
Your cookies look so good but the recipe is missing items and some are different measurements. Like the flour amount at the top is different in your instructions. There is no mention of how many eggs or salt to use. I’m trying to make this and I cannot complete it. Please help 🙂
Susan from Pennsylvania
Shelby Law Ruttan says
Hi Susan, the recipe card was looked over and updates were made. Thanks.
Michele @ Flavor Mosaic says
These are beautiful.
honeyb says
Those are beautiful cookies!
claudia lamascolo says
these are really delicious looking!
Life Tastes Good says
These are amazing, Shelby! These are so beautiful! They would make a wonderful gift!! I've never had red velvet in cookie form which, clearly, needs to change!!
Carlsbad Cravings says
I love the color of these, they are so cute and festive and look delicious! and I would definitely have to double the recipe 🙂
Sheena @ Hot Eats and Cool Reads says
Love these cookies! They are so pretty and festive!!
Rachael says
You get up early! And these cookies look fantastic.
Mary Ellen says
These cookies are just beautiful!
Renee Paj says
Loving this festive cookie!! YUMMMMM!
Sarah Olson says
Santa would love these! So would my little girl and husband. Great recipe!
Barbara Bakes says
These are so pretty!