Baking FAIL and SUCCESS: Death by Christmas Cookies

For those of you who read my previous entry, you already know I failed once at making fudge. After my first attempt, the fudge failed to harden. I took some well-meaning advice from some people (the internet) and decided to boil it down again and see if it hardened after the second attempt.I wanted to make sure I boiled it long enough, so I stood there for five minutes stirring and stirring, hoping that my fudge could be saved. I put it in the fridge overnight pretty confident that by morning I would have some decent fudge. Needless to say I was pretty disappointed when I got up the next morning to find caramel in my fridge. The stickiest, gooiest, most useless caramel ever made by man. And because it was so difficult to get out of the pan it ended up all over my kitchen. 


Needless to say I abandoned the fudge idea and decided to go with a tried and true recipe: 

What you will need:

1 cup butter, melted 1/4 cup white sugar 1 1/4 cup brown sugar 2 eggs 2 tsp vanilla extract 2 cups all-purpose flour

2/3 cup cocoa powder 3/4 tsp baking soda 1/2 tsp kosher salt 2 cups semisweet chocolate chips chocolate chips  6-8 peppermint candy canes

Preheat your oven to 375 degrees F. In a large mixer bowl, beat butter, sugar, eggs, and vanilla together until light and fluffy. In a separate bowl, combine the flour, cocoa, baking soda, and salt together, then add to the wet mixture, mixing until well blended. Stir in the chocolate chips. Drop by rounded tablespoonfuls onto un-greased cookie sheets. Bake for 8 to 10 minutes. 


Next, smash your candy canes to smithereens. You can try to get a variety of sizes or you can just ground them into powder. Place in bowl.


Last, melt about 3/4 of a bag of chocolate chips. You can do this a few different ways. I put a glass bowl over a saucepan of boiling water.  Dip the cookies halfway into the chocolate, then dip them into the candy cane bowl. Set aside on foil or wax paper to harden.

Getting the chocolate evenly over half the cookie is the hardest challenge. Other than that these are a fun and easy cookie to make!

Check it out on foodgawker.

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