Chocolate Peppermint Mocha Drizzled Shortbread Cookies!

Lovelies, Are you getting excited for the holiday season this year? We know definitely are! We can’t believe Christmas is next week! Today we have been busy in the kitchen baking up a super fun recipe for you to try this year! One of our favorite holiday traditions is making cookies and we have a very merry recipe for Chocolate Peppermint Mocha drizzled shortbread cookies today. Not only is this recipe easy and quick, it has a little twist with it by adding in International Delight Peppermint Mocha creamer, a flavor we totally love for the holidays! Check out this super quick, yet totally delightful International Delight recipe for Christmas!

This Christmas cookie has the most amazing holiday flavors all in one bite. Plus it goes great with coffee or hot coco with a splash of International Delight peppermint mocha creamer to really tie in the flavors and be in peppermint mocha heaven! Yum!

Chocolate Peppermint Mocha Drizzled Shortbread Cookies

For Shortbread Cookies

Prep Time: 20 Min

Cook time: 10-15 Min

Total Time: 35 Min

Yield- 24 Cookies

Ingredients:

• 1 cup unsalted butter, room temperature
• ¾ cup sifted icing sugar {confectioners sugar}
• 2 cups all-purpose flour

1. Preheat oven to 300 deg F
2. Place butter in large bowl on Stand Up Mixer
3. Gradually beat in sugar with paddle attachment until smooth and creamy, mix well
4. Stir in 2 cups of flour, 1/4 cup at a time just until incorporated
5. Roll out dough on floured surface to ¼ inch thickness (May help to divide dough into 2 sections and
6. Cut shapes with cookie cutter- kneading dough back together and rolling out between shapes.
7. Place on ungreased baking sheets
8. Bake until cookies turn light golden colour, about 10-15 minutes
9. Slide onto racks to cool

For Chocolate Peppermint Mocha Drizzle

Prep Time: 10 min
Cook Time: 5 min                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               Rest time: 1 hr
Total Time: 15
Yield: 3 cups of chocolate drizzle to use how you’d like!

Ingredients:

• 1 cup of Red Melting Chocolate Wafers
• 1 cup of Green Melting Chocolate Wafers
• 1 cup of White Melting Chocolate Wafers
• 3 tablespoons vegetable shortening
• 3/4 cup International Delight Peppermint Mocha Creamer

Instructions:

MICROWAVE  Red chocolate wafers and 1 tablespoon of vegetable shortening in small, dry, uncovered, microwave-safe bowl on HIGH (100%) power for 1 minute; STIR. The morsels may retain some of their original shape. If necessary, microwave at additional 10- to 15-second intervals, stirring just until morsels are melted with spatula. Add International Delight to chocolate mixture and let stand for 2 minutes without stirring. Stir until smooth. Repeat for green and white colored chocolate wafers.

PLACE pre-made shortbread cookies on on cooling rack(s) with parchment or wax paper underneath to catch any drips. Pour chocolate into 3 separate sandwich bags and cut corner with scissors for easy made piping bag. Squeeze bag to drizzle over cookies

OR dip shortbread cookies in the red, green of white chocolate mixture and place on parchment paper to dry.

LET chocolate set at room temperature until dried,  Or to speed process, refrigerate until chocolate is firm. Enjoy immediately 🙂

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Look how cute the drizzled ones turned out. You can even do a plaid design on your cookies for a really trendy look this year!

We love the look of the chocolate dipped cookies too. Add in fun sprinkles like these snowflake tree toppers to really bring in the festive look.

You can get International Delight’s Peppermint Mocha Creamer 5% off  from 12/1/15 – 12/24/2015 with the Target Cartwheel App, not to mention Silk And Dunkin’ Donuts too! If you haven’t downloaded it yet, you should! We use it every time we shop at Target and always save at checkout. This year we have already saved over $50 using it. It is amazing and always has a deal on something every week. Check out more about Cartwheel and download it here.

Love the cute Santa mug and plate we used? Those are from Target too! Be sure to stop in today to get yours for an adorable look this year! 

 

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