GMA Recipe: Chocolate Peppermint Bar Cookies

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Sara Moulton and GMA anchors making cookies

Chocolate Peppermint Bar Cookies
From Gourmet Magazine Food Editor and author, Sara Moulton
Friday, December 15, 2006

Gourmet Magazine's Sara Moulton is back with some of their best cookies for Christmas 2006 on Good Morning America.

Active Time: 25 minutes.
Start to Finish: 1 /12 hours

Chocolate Peppermint Bar Cookies

Ingredients

1/2 cup all-purpose flour

1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder (not Dutch-process cocoa powder)

1 tsp. baking soda

1/2 tsp. salt

1 stick (1/2 cup) unsalted butter, softened

3/4 cup packed dark brown sugar

1 large egg

1 cup semisweet chocolate chips (6 oz.)

1 cup coarsely crushed peppermint hard candies (about 1/4 lb.)

Directions

Put oven rack in middle position and preheat oven to 350°F. Line a 13 by 9 inch metal baking pan with one sheet of foil, allowing two inches of foil to hang over each end of pan. Butter the foil (except overhang).

Whisk together flour, cocoa powder, baking soda and salt in a small bowl. Beat together butter and brown sugar in a large bowl with an electric mixer at high speed, until pale and fluffy -- about three minutes. Beat in egg until combined. Reduce speed to low, then mix in flour mixture until combined. Stir in chocolate chips and candy pieces.

Spread dough evenly in pan and bake until puffed and beginning to pull away from sides of pan, about 15 to 20 minutes. Cool completely in pan on rack, then, lifting with foil, transfer to a cutting board. Cut into bars and lift off with a spatula.

Recipe makes 32 bars. Bars keep in an airtight container at room temperature for three days.

Recipe courtesy Gourmet magazine, copyright © December 2006.