Chocolate Candy Cane Cookies

For blogmas this year, I decided to switch it up and highlight local bloggers in the area that you should already be following! My second guest post comes from Phoebe, from http://www.milkwithnosugar.blog and she is sharing with us a festive twist on one of her amazing cookie recipes. Be sure to check out all of her information at the end of this post!

Hi I’m Phoebe, and I run a small food, travel and lifestyle blog, Milk With No Sugar. I’m so excited to be partnering with Layla as we complete day four of our Blogmas journey. Feel free to find me on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter!

Baking is one of my favourite Christmas pastimes. Scratch that. Baking is one of my favourite pastimes PERIOD. I love the maths and science behind the perfect bread recipe, and how much joy a batch of cookies can bring, whether it’s fresh out of the oven and paired with a glass of cold milk, or bundled up as a hostess gift for friends and family. 

In honor of National Cookie Day, I have given this festive twist on a classic recipe of mine which takes my all time favourite holiday confectionery, candy canes, and partners them with delicious white chocolate chips and fudgy chocolate cookie dough. Why not leave a batch out for Santa this Christmas?!

INGREDIENTS

1 cup BUTTER (half melted, half room temp)
1½ cups SUGAR
2 teaspoons VANILLA ESSENCE
2 EGGS
2 cups PLAIN FLOUR
½ cup COCOA POWDER
1 teaspoon BAKING SODA
½ teaspoon SALT
1 ½ cups WHITE CHOCOLATE CHIPS
6 CANDY CANES

Preheat the oven to 375F. Cream all the butter together with the sugar using an electric whisk. Add the vanilla, then the eggs one at a time and mix again until fluffy and light.

In a separate bowl, combine the flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, and salt. Slowly add the flour mixture to the butter mixture and combine until one uniform colour. Stir in the chocolate chips. Throw the candy canes into a sandwich bag and smash them into small shards using a rolling pin. Fold into the mix.

With wet hands (keep a bowl of cold water to hand), roll the dough into small balls and place evenly spaced on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Bake for 15 minutes and transfer onto a cooling rack- but keep the cookies on the parchment paper so they don’t get criss-crossed bottoms!

If packing up as a gift, put a layer of parchment paper between each cookie and tie up with string.

How are you liking Blogmas so far?! Have you seen my last guest post? Check it out here!