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I’m super excited for the holidays this year! It feels as if December snuck up on me, and I’m not ready for the holiday season, but nevertheless, I’m excited for the end of the year.

We’ve already started the celebrations with an annual trip to the Toronto Christmas Market, which has become a tradition for my husband and I. It started the first year we started dating, and now it has become an annual tradition!

Any holiday gathering, really any social gathering, has to have lots of food involved. For my family and friends at least, getting together for any celebration has to involve good food. It’s no fun otherwise.

What I also enjoy about the holidays is the planning that goes around it, what type of food to serve, which recipes I get to try! It’s not everyday I have so many guinea pigs around me of course! Jokes aside, something about food, brings people together. In many cultures it is rude to not serve any food or drinks to guests even if they just drop by unannounced. If you go over to someone’s house, chances are you’re bringing them food. We associate certain foods with certain celebrations, cookies around the holidays, ice cream for summer, hot tea on rainy days

I often bring around baked goods for my friends whenever I meet up with them – to the point where now I get requests of saving a cookie from the last batch I posted on Instagram for the next time I see them!

Looking for more Holiday Baking Recipes?

Candy Cane Chocolate Chip Cookies

This brings me to this cookie. I was craving some chocolate chip cookies but wanted to make them festive given my mood after the Christmas Market. Candy canes are just such a festive treat. I’ll be honest I never eat candy canes as is. Occasionally, I melt one in my hot chocolate, or sprinkle some crushed candy canes on top of holiday goods, which always adds to the flavour, so why not add them into the cookie batter!

I love soft and chewy chocolate chip cookies! The mix of brown and white sugar combine to make this cookie with a perfect balance of soft, chewy, melt in your mouth, chocolatey goodness, and the candy canes provide just a touch of crunch to make the cookies festive. The mint in the candy canes also complement the chocolate in the cookies, kind of like a peppermint hot chocolate!

The batter comes together really quickly. It uses melted butter, so baking can be a last minute decision – no need to wait around for the butter to soften up. Once you make the batter, divide up the cookies into dough balls, and then pop them back in the fridge for at least a couple hours (ideally at least a day). The cookies bake a lot better once they’ve had a chance to chill in the fridge.

When you’re ready to bake the cookies, plop the cookie dough balls onto a baking tray and then get ready for your kitchen to smell like heaven!

If you don’t get a chance to make this recipe before Christmas, they would also be a great way to use up any leftover candy canes in January!

Let me know how your cookies turn out!

Candy Cane Chocolate Chip Cookies

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Prep Time 10

Cook Time 20

Servings 12 cookies

Ingredients

2.5 cups all-purpose flour 301 grams
½ teaspoon baking soda
½ teaspoon salt
2/3 cup unsalted butter, melted and cooled 150 grams
1 cup light or dark brown sugar 200 grams
½ cup granulated sugar 100 grams
1 egg
1 egg yolk
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
½ cup 85 grams semisweet chocolate chips
½ cup 85 grams white chocolate chips
½ cup 85 grams crushed candy canes

Instructions

Melt butter in the microwave, and cool.
In a bowl mix together all the dry ingredients: all-purpose flour, baking soda, salt.
Once the butter has cooled, add the white sugar, and brown sugar, and mix well on high speed for 2-3 minutes.
Add the eggs and vanilla to the mixture and mix for another 1-2 minutes.
Add in the dry ingredients and mix well until all the dry mixture is combined with the wet ingredients
Add in the semisweet chocolate chips, white chocolate chips and crushed candy canes and fold into the rest of the batter.
Divide the batter into equal balls of dough (I use an ice cream scooper to help). The dough should make about 14-18 cookies.
Place mixture in the fridge for at least 2 hours (ideally one day).Pre-heat oven to 325F degrees.
On a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper place cookie dough balls at least 1.5 inches apart.
Place cookie sheet in the oven and bake for 14-18 minutes.
The sides should start to brown but the centre will look soft.
Once removed from oven, rap the cookie sheet on the counter to get that rustic cookie look.
Leave in the cookie sheet to cool for at least 20 minutes.
The cookies will be too soft when they are fresh from the oven, and will harden as they coolAfter 20 minutes move cookies to cooling rack. Enjoy!