White Chocolate Candy Cane Cookies

Tender chocolate chip cookies get a festive makeover with these White Chocolate Candy Cane Cookies, an easy Christmas cookie recipe.

Featuring white chocolate chips and crushed candy cane, these classic cookies are sure to be loved by your whole family this holiday season.

Soft and chewy, these are sure to be loved kids who don’t like Christmas cookies which makes them a welcome addition to my Christmas cookie repertoire.

These are truly kid friendly.

In my opinion, the key to the best chocolate chip cookies is extra chips, so feel free to throw extra in. 

Use chunks of chocolate instead or add other types of chocolate too.

You seriously cannot go wrong.

About the White Chocolate Candy Cane Cookie Ingredients:

Here’s what you’ll need to make the White Chocolate Candy Cane Cookies:

Flour – Just plain old all-purpose flour. Spoon and level the flour when measuring it.

Sugar – Use packed brown sugar to add some depth to the cookie.

Salt – Helps make all the yummy flavours baked into the buns to really shine.

Baking soda: Helps the cookies rise in the oven. Make sure to test for effectiveness before using if you’ve had it longer than 6 months.

Butter – I recommend unsalted butter when baking as the salt content in butter can vary. If all you have is salted, omit the added salt from the recipe.

Eggs – Bring to room temperature before baking with eggs if possible. They mix better and the dough will rise better.

Peppermint Extract – Adds more peppermint flavour to the cookie but if you want to tone it down then substitute with vanilla extract.

White chocolate chips  – You may also want to make chocolate chunks by roughly chopping a white chocolate bar.

Peppermint candy – Use either Peppermint candies or candy cane here.

Looking for more easy Christmas dessert recipes?

Check out some of my favourite Christmas desserts:

Candy Cane Bundt Cake

Melting Snowman Cookies

Snowman Oreo Pops

White Chocolate Candy Cane Cookies

Ingredients:

1 1/2 C flour
1 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp kosher salt
1/2 C unsalted butter, softened
3/4 C light brown sugar packed
1 large egg
1 tsp pure peppermint extract
1 ½ C white chocolate chips
1 C crushed peppermint candy

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350

Line two baking sheets with parchment paper.

In a small bowl combine flour, baking soda and salt. Set aside.

In a standing mixer, beat together the butter and sugars until combined and fluffy

Beat in the egg, and peppermint extract

Gradually beat in the dry ingredients until combined

Fold in 1 C of the white chocolate chip cookies and ¾ C of the crushed peppermint candy

Using a medium ice cream scooper, scoop out some dough onto the parchment paper

Bake in the oven for for 8 minutes

Remove from oven and sprinkle on some of the remaining white chocolate chips and crushed peppermint candy

Place back into the oven for an additional 2 minutes

Remove from oven and cool completely

Enjoy!