peppermint lace cookies

Ingredients

• Servings: 3
• 1 cup butter, softened
• 1 cup confectioners' sugar
• 2 teaspoons peppermint extract
• 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup rolled oats
• 1/3 cup crushed peppermint candies
• 2 tablespoons confectioners' sugar, or as needed
• 1 tablespoon very finely crushed peppermint candies, or as needed

Recipe

Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 10 mins Ready Time: 55 mins


• preheat oven to 325 degrees f (165 degrees c).
• beat butter and 1 cup confectioners' sugar in a large bowl until creamy and smooth; stir peppermint extract into butter mixture. whisk flour and salt in a bowl and stir into butter mixture. gently fold rolled oats and 1/3 cup crushed peppermint candies into the dough.
• drop dough by teaspoonful ungreased baking sheets, leaving 3 inches between cookies; press cookies 1/4 inch thick with your fingertips.
• bake in the preheated oven until cookies have lightly browned edges, 10 to 12 minutes. let cookies cool on baking sheets for at least 5 minutes before removing to finish cooling on wire racks.
• stir 2 tablespoons confectioners' sugar with 1 tablespoon very finely crushed peppermint candies in a small bowl; transfer to a fine-mesh wire strainer. dust cooled cookies with peppermint candy mixture.