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You are here: Home / Recipes / Baking / Peppermint Drop Cookies // Cookie Swap Recipe

Peppermint Drop Cookies // Cookie Swap Recipe

20 · Dec 5, 2013 · 14 Comments

Peppermint Drop Cookie Recipe // The season is upon us… Holiday baking and general goodie making. I grew up with a Mom who created all kinds of goodies each year to share with friends and neighbors. This year I decided to experiment with a "cookie" or a meringue cookie really… to come up with a cute take on those traditional peppermint candies. 

WhipperBerry Peppermint Drop Meringue Cookies

Meringue cookies are all over the patisseries in Paris in varies shapes and flavors. They are sooooo easy to make and are a fun unique treat that you can WOW your friends with. They are made just like a meringue for a pie, but you pipe them onto a parchment lined baking sheet and bake them for quite a bit longer. They turn into these cute, crunchy, yet soft in the middle sweet treats. When you add a little red food coloring and some peppermint extract they get even better and are like peppermint candies, but WAY better!

Peppermint Drop Cookie Recipe

This recipe has been adapted from Martha Stewart's Peppermint Meringues with Chocolate Filling Recipe // It will yield about 30 two inch size meringue cookies.

3 egg whites

3/4 cup sugar

1/2 teaspoon peppermint extract

red gel food coloring

Instructions

In a heat safe mixing bowl, place the egg whites and sugar. Place over a medium sauce pan filled half way with water at a low simmer on the stove. Slowly whisk the egg whites and sugar until the sugar has melted. The best way to test that is using your CLEAN fingers. Just pinch a bit of the mixture and see if you still feel the grit of the sugar. As soon as the grit is gone, this usually take a few minutes, the whites are then ready to whip into a meringue.

Place mixing bowl in mixer and with the whisk attachment, whisk on high until the egg whites and sugar form stiff peaks.  Once you have stiff peaks, add the peppermint extract and whisk until fully combined.

Place a large star tip in a large pastry bag. Then using a clean brush or tip of a butter knife, draw some stripes onto the inside of the pastry bag with the red gel food coloring.

WhipperBerry Peppermint Drop Cookies-pipping bag trick

It doesn't need to be pretty, or exact… just four or five lines to add the red stripes to the peppermint drops.

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Next, pipe the meringue onto a parchment lined baking sheet. Make the cookies about two inches in diameter.  A quick note… Due to the nature of these cookies you may want to use masking tape to tape down the parchment paper on the baking sheet. That way you won't have parchment paper floating around wreaking havoc on your peppermint drop cookies.  Make nice little drops with the pastry bag and then carefully pull up to create the nice peak at the top.

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Place in a 175˚ oven for 3 hours. I also place a wooden spoon in between the oven door and the oven so that any steam that is created can escape. Once the cookies are hard, remove them from the oven and let cool.

WhipperBerry Peppermint Drop Cookies - Meringue Recipe

These little meringues turn into these bite size peppermint treats that just melt in your mouth. They are a perfect addition to a goodie plate, because they add DRAMA. The nice thing is they can be made ahead of time and stored in an air tight container for a couple of weeks. You can even create a fun little goodie bag just filled with these little treats. Either way, they would be a great addition to your holiday treat list!

WhipperBerry Peppermint Drop Cookies

Santa will even love them on his goodie plate. They are a nice change of pace to your regular cookie!

I am participating in a fun cookie swap this week with a group of fabulous bloggers!!

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You can head over and check out their fun recipes…

Tracie from Cleverly Inspired made some rustic Gingerbread Biscotti… 

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Chelsea from Two Twenty One made another peppermint treat… Peppermint Chocolate Cookies.

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Tomorrow, Carmel from Our Fifth House will have another cookie to share with you guys! Make sure to head over and see what she's created.

Happy Holidays!

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  1. Carmel says

    December 5, 2013 at 9:44 am

    Wow – those are too beautiful to eat!  I'd want to hang them on my Christmas tree  😉 

     

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  2. Nicole says

    December 5, 2013 at 1:58 pm

    These cookies are gorgeous! I bet Santa will love them!

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  3. Cassie says

    December 6, 2013 at 5:08 am

    I never thought about how that could be done! Adding the red to it makes it look great! 

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  4. Chloe Crabtree says

    December 7, 2013 at 6:15 pm

    So pretty!  A nice alternative to the plain white meringues I usually make!  Thank you for sharing.  

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  5. Jenn from My Fabuless Life says

    December 8, 2013 at 8:36 pm

    These are gorgeous!  I want to make a bunch just to stick in apothecary jars and decorate with!!

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  6. Linda says

    December 10, 2013 at 9:50 am

    I just made these this morning to take to the girl guides Christmas party! They are in the oven now. Mine seemed a little soft as I piped them out. They were stiff peaks in the bowl, but the edges don't seem as sharp as your pictures. Can you predict what went wrong? I'll let you know in 3 hours how they turn out.

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  7. Janine Evans says

    December 16, 2013 at 6:19 pm

    OMGosh!  Such a lovely idea and presentation.  I will be adding this to our Christmas treat cooking this weekend.  Thanks!

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  8. melanie says

    December 22, 2013 at 7:41 pm

    All was going well with my egg whites until I put in the peppermint extract in it! I lost my peaks!

    oil in the extract. 

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    • Robbie says

      November 14, 2014 at 8:35 am

      When using an oil and not an extract. You only need a quarter of what the recipe calls for. Oil is more concentrated than a watery extract.

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