Today I am revealing my submission for the Great Food Blogger Cookie Swap and presenting you with these Hershey’s Chocolate Peppermint Cookies!
I have heard about the Great Food Blogger Cookie Swap for a couple of years now and this years was the first chance I got to participate! It was so fun making cookies, packaging them up and sending them off on their way. What was not fun was the post office letting you pay for a two day shipment and finding out that in fact they did not arrive in two days.
Anyways, what is this cookie swap that I am talking about? Well a couple of bloggers Lindsey from Love and Olive Oil and Julie from The Little Kitchen started this cookie swap back in 2011. Basically you bake three dozen cookies and ship them off and three different bloggers send you a dozen cookies. The best part is that they collected a small donation from each blogger that went to with Cookies for Kids’ Cancer, a national non-profit organization committed to funding new therapies used in the fight against pediatric cancer, which claims the lives of more children in the US than any other disease.
So non the less I was more than happy to participate! I received cookies from Julie from White Lights on Wednesday, Annie from Annie One Can Cook and Gin from Gin’s Kitchen!
Striped Shortbread from White Lights on Wednesday
My cookies that I sent off were these Hershey’s Chocolate Peppermint Cookies! ENJOY!
Hersheys Chocolate Peppermint Cookies
Ingredients
- COOKIES:
- 7 tablespoons unsalted butter
- ⅓ cup brown sugar
- ⅓ cup white sugar
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 egg
- 1½ cups all purpose flour
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 cup peppermint chips
- 3 tablespoons Hershey chocolate spread
- DRIZZLE:
- 2 ounces Candiquik
- 1 teaspoon Hershey's chocolate spread
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Prepare two cookie sheet pans with silpat or parchment paper.
- In mixer add butter, brown sugar, and white sugar. Mix till creamy.
- Add egg and mix till creamy. Add vanilla extract and continue to mix.
- In separate bowl combine flour and baking soda.
- Add flour mixture to mixing bowl and continue to mix.
- Stir in peppermint chips.
- Swirl in chocolate spread
- Using two tablespoons scoop out mixture and drop onto cookie sheets.
- Bake for 9 to 11 minutes or until golden brown. Cool.
- In a microwavable bowl melt Candiquik for 30 seconds or until completely melted. Stir in cherry vanilla flavoring and drizzle over cookies. ENJOY!
Melanie @ Carmel Moments
Nancy, these cookies were amazing! Me and kids had to fight over them. Thanks so much! And we look forward to making them on our own sometime!
Rachel - A Southern Fairytale
These were super yummy! My kids loved them!
Shinee
Chocolate and peppermint! Love these cookies, Nancy!
Laura O @Petite Allergy Treats
How fun! Cookies are my weakness… These look amazing and perfect for this time of year!
Amy @ A Healthy Life For Me
Wow, can I have the whole stack please. I need this with my morning coffee.
Mandy @Mandy's Recipe Box
Yum! How fun 🙂
Alyssa
These cookies look fantastic! I love chocolate and peppermint together.
Beth
That makes me so mad when I pay for 2 day shipping and my package doesn’t arrive!! And it’s hard to get your money back for that! But I am sure your cookie swap partners still loved them!
heather @french press
you can never go wrong with chocolate and peppermint, especially at holiday time
Sara @ Bitz & Giggles
Really wishing you had received my address right now! I would have loved to receive a dozen of those babies! YUM!
Sheena @ Hot Eats and Cool Reads
I would love to get these cookies delivered to my door! They sound wonderful!!
Liz
I love, love the food blogger cookie swap! And your chocolate peppermint cookies look divine!!!
Brenda@Sugar-Free Mom
OH yummy I have a weakness for pretty drizzle on top cookies!
Paula - bell'alimento
Chocolate and Peppermint ! YES.
Martha @ A Family Feast
I didn’t participate in the cookie swap this year – but I wish I did – especially if I was paired up with you and received these cookies! YUM!
Kristine @ Kristine's Kitchen
The peppermint and chocolate in these cookies look amazing together! I didn’t participate in the cookie swap, but it sounds like so much fun! I’ll have to keep it in mind for next year. 🙂
Heather @ Sugar Dish Me
Oh yay! Cookie swap cookies! Hershey’s base recipes are THE BEST. These look terrific!
Ashlyn @ Belle of the Kitchen
Those cookies look absolutely amazing! I’d love to get them in the mail! 🙂
Mallory @ Chocolate with Grace
These look amazing. Chocolate and peppermint are some of my favorites!
Melissa from HungryFoodLove.com
I also participated in the cookie swap and loved the cookies I got…. but I would have loved to get these ones too. Look soo soo god!
Heather | girlichef
Oh yum, these sound amazing – I need to add them to my holiday baking list!
Nikki @ NikSnacks
Thanks for spreading your peppermint cookie joy with these little ditties! Maybe I missed it, but what cookies did YOU receive?
claire @the realistic nutritionist
I have to do the swap next year. Your cookies look SO perfect!
Erin @ Texanerin Baking
These look so soft and chewy! But boo at the post office not delivering your package in 2 days. 🙁
Those striped shortbread look great, too! Sounds like a fun exchange.
Rose | The Clean Dish
What a fun exchange!! Your cookies look great – I wish I could taste one right now 🙂
Bea
The cookie swap was so much fun. I participated for the first time this year as well.
Your cookies sounds delicious and they speak to my chocolate – mint addiction. Yummy!
Kirsten/ComfortablyDomestic
Chocolate and Peppermint are positively cravable this time of year. The cookies look so perfect and chewy!
Nutmeg Nanny
These look fantastic! Totally perfect for the holidays.
Angie | Big Bear's Wife
the Great Food Blogger Cookie Swap is EVERYWHERE this year! i love it! Oh and Peppermint and Chocolate = one of the BEST combination ever! Love the drizzle on these
Anna @ Sunny Side Ups
Yum! Your cookies look absolutely irresistibly delicious! Lovin that chocolate drizzle on top! 🙂 Pinned!
Nancy P.
Thanks Anna!
Jocelyn@Brucrewlife
Your cookies look fabulous! 🙂 The drizzle on top is the perfect touch!
Michelle Rittler @ Taste As You Go
Thanks so much for allowing me to include your recipe in my round-up of 60 Ultimate Cookie Exchange Recipes on Taste As You Go! Happy Holidays!
Nancy P.
Thanks for including it!