These chocolate peppermint shortbread bites are sure to be a holiday favorite!
Ingredients
Cookies
1 cup flour
¼ cup sugar
¼ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
½ cup butter
Chocolate Ganache
6 ounces semisweet or milk chocolate,chopped
½ cup whipping cream
Instructions
Preheat oven to 325F.
In a medium bowl, stir together flour, sugar, and cocoa powder. Using a pastry blender {or your hands!}, cut in the butter until the mixture resembles fine crumbs and starts to cling together {this may take a little while}. Roll into a ball kneading until smooth.
On a floured surface, roll out dough into approximately ½ inch thickness. Use a small rectangular cookie cutter or slice into 1 inch x 2 inch rectangles. Place onto an ungreased cookie sheet and bake for 20-25 minutes or until just firm in the center. Cool cookies on a wire rack.
In a medium saucepan, bring whipping cream just to boiling over medium heat. Remove from heat and add the chocolate. Let stand for 5 minutes and then stir until smooth. Cool for 15 minutes before using.
Place 6 peppermint candies into a Ziploc bag and crush into small pieces.
Drizzle the chocolate ganache over the tops of the cookies and then sprinkle with the peppermints.
Recipe by Clean and Scentsible at https://www.cleanandscentsible.com/chocolate-peppermint-shortbread-bites/