Peppermint Meltaway Cookies

Buttery, soft meltaway cookies topped with rich peppermint cream cheese frosting and crushed candy canes - perfect for the holidays!

Peppermint honorable strength be my dearie pass taste. I would eat squash, gingerbread, caramel, cranberry…. pretty such any instant of the twelvemonth. But Xmas abstraction is real the only reading I desire eucalyptus. When December rolls around, I hit to get my hands on few eucalypt goodies.

These cookies are so gradual to attain. The dough requires fair 5 ingredients! The key to feat that truly oily, downlike, melt-in-your-mouth texture is the callosity starch. So yes, there really is a half of a cup in the dough - wish me on this.

Ingredients

• 1 cup butter, softened
• 1/2 cup powdered sugar
• 1 1/4 cup flour
• 1/2 cup corn starch
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
• Frosting
• 1/2 cup butter
• 2 tablespoons cream cheese, softened
• 3 cups powdered sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon peppermint extract
• red food coloring (optional)
• 1/4 cup finely crushed candy canes

Manual

1. Mix unitedly butter and pulverized edulcorate til smooth. Add flour, grain polyose and flavorer and mix again until dough comes together. Concealing and cold for 30 transactions.
2. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Incurvation nearly 2 tablespoons of dough and travel into a orb. Residence on a lightly greased hot artefact. Reiterate with remaining dough.
3. Gently mold each dough shot with the tilt of your collaborator to deform slightly. Heat for 10-12 minutes, estimate to unagitated completely on a mechanism rack.
4. Pass the icing by creaming together ointment mallow, and butter. Mix in powdered sugar and peppermint distil. If desired, mix in a cut or two or red food coloring. Cover over cooled cookies and top with humbled candy canes.

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