If you’re looking for a few sweet holiday season treats, check out a bunch of our very favorite chocolate peppermint recipes.
Something about the flavor combination of chocolate and peppermint goes together like peanut butter and jelly. It’s a timeless favorite for good reason!
From peppermint bark to bars, from truffles and Starbucks’ famed peppermint mocha, it’s no coincidence that peppermint and chocolate are always paired up.
In my world, nothing says the Christmas season has arrived quite like the baking and the sweets and treats appearing here, there and everywhere.
To make your season especially merry and bright, here are a bunch of our very favorite chocolate peppermint recipes worth making!
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Julianne Bayer
White Chocolate Peppermint Cheesecake Recipe
This no-bake white chocolate peppermint cheesecake recipe is the best kind of Christmas dessert. It’s made with a thick Oreo crust then filled with a velvety white chocolate cheesecake filling loaded with crushed peppermint bark. This dessert is absolutely perfect for your holiday parties. It’s the type of dessert you can prepare in advance, a day or two ahead of time should be no problem.
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Kristan Roland
Peppermint Patty Cookies Recipe
These classic, chewy peppermint patty cookies are perhaps one of the best cookies you’ll make all season long! These fudge cookies are made with a cake mix to make a yummy, decadent cookie dough that comes together in minutes. Top that off with a generous slather of peppermint buttercream and a dip in thin chocolate shell. The resulting cookie is basically perfection.
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Kim Beaulieu
Chocolate Peppermint Fudge Recipe
Our chocolate peppermint fudge recipe is easy and delightful – it’s one of those classic Christmas fudge recipes you’ll find yourself making year after year. Think rich, decadent fudge topped with crushed peppermint candies and you’ll have a sense of precisely how tasty this fudge recipe happens to be. One sweet bite tastes like Christmas itself!
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Amanda Powell
Peppermint Chocolate Cookies Recipe
These simple, classic peppermint chocolate cookies are the quintessential winter cookie. Buttery, chewy chocolate cookies are studded with white chocolate peppermint chips. Think of your favorite chocolate chip cookie, but inside out with a chocolate cookie base and white chocolate chips infused with a delicate minty flavor. They’re perfect for your cookie platters or as a snow day treat!
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Kim Beaulieu
Double Chocolate Peppermint Dip Recipe
Chocolate fanatics, raise your hands! (It’s me. Hi. I’m the one raising my hand.) This double chocolate peppermint dip recipe is a perfect one for serving at holiday parties all season long. You’ve got white chocolate, milk chocolate, crushed peppermint all whipped into into a dip and served with miniature pretzels. The combination of sweet and salty is out of this world.
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Kristan Roland
Peppermint Patty Brownie Bites Recipe
Since we’ve established that chocolate and mint can make anything better, put these peppermint patty brownie bites on your list of Christmas treats to make this year. Dark chocolate brownie bites are topped with peppermint patty filling and then dipped in chocolate shell making them perfect for snacking, cookie trays or packaging up to drop off for your neighbors.
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Aimee Shugarman
Peppermint Truffles Recipe
I love a good truffle recipe anytime of year. They’re generally really quick and easy to make, plus you can whip them up in nearly limitless flavor combinations. These chocolate coconut truffles are a simple Christmas cookie recipe, dipped in milk and white chocolate and sprinkled with crushed candy canes. Prepare to make a double batch! These ones will go fast.
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Kristan Roland
Peppermint Bark Cream Puffs Recipe
These peppermint bark cream puffs are easy to make, but feel so fancy! Serve them up after Christmas dinner or even as part of Christmas brunch. They’ll be the hit of your menu. The ingredients — butter, sugar, flour, water and eggs — couldn’t be simpler, and they’re so much easier to make than you can imagine. The creamy filling and the sweet ganache make for an incredible treat.
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Kristan Roland
Peppermint Bark Silk Pie Recipe
If you’ve had traditional French Silk Pie, you’re familiar with the buttery, silky, chocolate filling that it’s known for. This peppermint bark silk pie recipe has just that but with white chocolate instead. The Oreo crust plus the creamy filling, all drizzled with chocolate ganache and sprinkled with peppermint candies, is an irresistible combination you’ll find yourself craving.
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Megan Myers
Peppermint Mocha Donuts Recipe
Trust me when I say that these peppermint mocha donuts will be a joy to wake up to this holiday season. They are great for breakfast or an afternoon sweet treat! Don’t be daunted by the idea of making homemade donuts at home – it’s so much easier than you’d think. Baked chocolate cake donuts are dunked in a sweet chocolate icing and then dusted with peppermint.
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Susannah Brinkley
Homemade Peppermint Vodka
Ok, ok. While this might not be quite like all of the other recipes we’re gushing about today, you won’t be disappointed by our homemade peppermint vodka recipe. It makes a great addition to festive Christmas cocktails like white chocolate martinis and White Russians, but it also looks pretty gifted in a glass jar as a hostess gift or an expected treat for a co-worker or neighbor.
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Meaghan Mountford
Peppermint Bark Pretzels Recipe
If you, like me, are a huge fan of the famed Williams-Sonoma peppermint bark, this peppermint bark pretzels recipe is for you! These pretzels are dipped in chocolate, drizzled in white chocolate and topped with crushed peppermint candies. They have just the right balance of salty and sweet, smooth and crunchy, and a lovely, chocolate mint flavor that isn’t overpowering.
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Kristan Roland
Peppermint Bark Layer Cake Recipe
I love making homemade cakes from scratch, but decorating them isn’t exactly high on my list of skillsets. Ok, let’s be honest – it’s no where on my list of skillsets. This peppermint bark layer cake is such a showstopper of a cake to serve during the holiday season, plus it is deceptively easy to pull off the decor. Pour chocolate ganache over top and add crushed peppermint bark and you’ve got magic!
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Kristan Roland
Peppermint Bark Brownies Recipe
Last but not least, I present you with our beloved peppermint bark brownies recipe! These brownies are a wonderful holiday dessert and that will be a huge hit at your office Christmas party or tucked onto cookie trays for a party or gift giving. We’re talking homemade brownies flavored with mint extract and white chocolate chips, topped with peppermint buttercream, ganache, and white chocolate.
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