Peppermint Fudgies

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These are casual capable for beginners and speedy capable for harried bakers: You conscionable driblet them from a spoon. The cookies are garnished with bits of peppermint connected apical and are fudgy-minty inside.

This look calls for sweetened condensed milk, not evaporated milk. Evaporated beverage is not heavy capable oregon saccharine capable and won't work. The condensed milk, on with the sweetener successful the cocoa and peppermint candy, provides each the sweetness the cookies need.

Store the cookies successful an airtight instrumentality successful a chill spot for 3 to 4 days, oregon frost for up to 1 month.

Adapted from "All American Dessert Book," by Nancy Baggett (Houghton Mifflin, 2005).

Ingredients

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Servings: 40-45 Makes 2 1/2-inch cookies

  • Enough peppermint candy canes oregon peppermint sticks to output 6 tablespoons crushed bits
  • 2 cups (12 ounces) semisweet cocoa morsels
  • 4 tablespoons (1/2 stick) unsalted butter
  • 14 ounces (1 regular-size can) sweetened condensed milk
  • 1 ample egg
  • 1/4 spoon peppermint extract oregon 1/2 spoon vanilla extract
  • 1 cupful flour
  • 5 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder

Nutritional Facts

Per cooky (based connected 45)

  • Calories

    88

  • Fat

    4 g

  • Saturated Fat

    3 g

  • Carbohydrates

    13 g

  • Sodium

    14 mg

  • Cholesterol

    10 mg

  • Protein

    2 g

  • Fiber

    1 g

  • Sugar

    9 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

Adapted from "All American Dessert Book," by Nancy Baggett (Houghton Mifflin, 2005).

Tested by Nancy Baggett.

Published December 7, 2009

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Updated March 13, 2026

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