Peppermint Chocolate Chip Cookies

Christmas is almost here, which means Christmas baking is in full swing around here.  
I'm off to a bit of a late start this year due to a nice long week of sickness in our house.  Thankfully everyone is on the mend, lets hope it stays that way for the rest of the month!

Each year I try to make a bunch of different Christmas cookies. 
I give them to neighbors, friends and send them to work with hubs. 

This year I searched through my Pinterest board for different recipes.  
I came up with a list of 10 new cookies I want to make.  

First up were these peppermint chocolate chip cookies.  I love peppermint with chocolate, especially over the holidays.  These cookies were the perfect mix of the two.  They weren't too pepperminty, nor did they have too much chocolate. Hubs isn't even a peppermint fan and he enjoyed them. They would pair well with a nice hot peppermint mocha from Starbucks!  Enjoy! 

Peppermint Chocolate Chip Cookies 

Adapted from Lil' Luna 

INGREDIENTS:

- 1/2 cup butter (softened)

- 1/2 cup oil

- 1 cup brown sugar

- 1 cup sugar

- 2 eggs

- 3 cups flour

- 1 tsp. baking powder

- 1 tsp. baking soda

- 1 tsp. salt

- 1 tsp. vanilla

- 1/2 tsp. almond extract

- 2 cups of chocolate chips 

- 1 cup Andes Peppermint Crunch Pieces

DIRECTIONS:

1. Cream butter, oil and sugars in your mixer.

2. Add eggs and beat until fluffy. Add almond and vanilla extract, mix again.  

3. Add flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt to a separate bowl and mix well. 
Add to wet ingredients and mix well.

4. Add chocolate chips and peppermint crunch pieces.   Mix well.

5. Bake at 350 for 8-10 minutes.

*I used a medium cookie scoop for these cookies*