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These white chocolate dipped cookies are delicious and perfectly spiced for the season. Decorated with holly berries, they’ll brighten up any Christmas table!
Soft spiced cookies that fill your kitchen with amazing aromas, dipped in just the right amount of white chocolate for an extra touch of decadence? These festive holiday treats are sure to be a hit this Christmas season.
What I love about these chocolate dipped Christmas cookies is they’re just as fun to make as they are to eat, and everyone can join in on decorating them!
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Why You’ll Love This White Chocolate Dipped Cookies Recipe
- Festive and delicious, these Christmas cookies dipped in white chocolate are the perfect treat for the holidays.
- This fun and easy white chocolate dipped cookies recipe can double as a Christmas bonding activity!
- These white chocolate covered molasses cookies are customizable! Add your favorite cookie mix-ins, spices, or play around with coatings and toppings.
Ingredients
SPICED COOKIE INGREDIENTS:
All-purpose flour – Use the spoon and level method to measure your flour correctly. You don’t want flat or dry chocolate covered Christmas cookies!
Baking powder – To help the dough rise.
Pumpkin pie spice, ground cardamom, and ground cloves – Quintessential warm spices for Xmas cookies.
Salt – Helps balance the sweetness of our white chocolate dipped Christmas cookies.
Unsalted butter – Make sure your butter has been left on the counter until soft, so it creams into the sugar easily.
Superfine sugar and brown sugar – Using two kinds of sugar creates white chocolate coated cookies with the perfect texture and taste!
Egg – To help bind everything together.
Molasses – These spiced white chocolate covered cookies are sweetened with molasses, just like your favorite gingerbread men.
WHITE CHOCOLATE COATING INGREDIENTS:
White chocolate chips – You can also chop your favorite bar!
Coconut oil – For a smooth white chocolate dip. It also gives the coating a professional-looking, shiny finish.
Red gel food color and green gel food color – When it comes to holiday baking, you can’t skip the red and green touches!
Ingredient Substitutions For White Chocolate Coated Cookies
Ground ginger and other cozy spices
Ginger, cinnamon, and nutmeg are staples in Christmas baking recipes! Use them instead of pumpkin pie spice to make these Christmas cookies dipped in chocolate extra merry.
Candy melts
Need a quick and easy way to decorate these Christmas food desserts? Candy melts work perfectly as a substitute for white chocolate chips.
Holly berry sprinkles
Skip the piping! Just press holly berry sprinkles onto your chocolate dipped cookies for an instant festive look.
Tips For Making This Recipe
Melt Your Chocolate in Batches
If you’re worried about your white chocolate burning or setting too quickly, melt it in batches!
Delicious Decorations to Try
Besides tinted white chocolate, you can also decorate these white chocolate dipped cookies with Christmas-themed treats like colorful sprinkles and M&M’s. Dried cranberries and chopped pistachios also fit the red and green theme perfectly.
Make-Ahead Tips
You can prepare your cookie dough a day in advance, wrap it in plastic wrap, and store it in the fridge. If you’re making a big batch of these holiday white chocolate coated cookies, they stay fresh in an airtight container for up to 3 days at room temperature.
White Chocolate Covered Cookies Recipe FAQs
How to melt white chocolate for dipping cookies?
You can microwave your white chocolate in 15- or 20-second intervals, stirring after each one until it’s perfectly smooth. You can also add a little coconut oil if the chocolate looks too thick for cookies dipped in white chocolate.
What is the best white chocolate for dipping cookies?
Melted chocolate chips sometimes harden with a streaked appearance, so for the best-looking white chocolate dipped Xmas cookies, consider melting wafers. They also melt easily to the perfect consistency!
Can chocolate chips be used for dipping?
Of course! We used white chocolate chips for these chocolate dipped Christmas cookies. Just melt them gently in the microwave.
What kind of molasses is best?
I recommend using unsulphured molasses for these white chocolate desserts, as blackstrap can make them taste bitter.
Can I freeze these white chocolate covered Christmas cookies?
We haven’t tried freezing the decorated white chocolate dipped cookies, but you can freeze the dough balls on a parchment-lined baking sheet until firm, then store them in a freezer-safe bag for up to 3 months.
More Delicious Holiday Desserts
- Christmas Reindeer Cookies
- Christmas Muffins
- Strawberry Filled Cupcakes
- Christmas Pretzels
- Hot Cocoa Charcuterie Board
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White Chocolate Dipped Cookies
Equipment
Ingredients
FOR THE SPICED COOKIES:
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp pumpkin pie spice
- 1/2 tsp ground cardamom
- 1/2 tsp ground clove
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter, room temperature
- 1/2 cup superfine sugar
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1 egg
- 1/8 cup molasses
FOR THE WHITE CHOCOLATE COATING:
Instructions
- Gather and measure your ingredients for the white chocolate dipped cookies.
SPICED COOKIES:
- Preheat the oven to 350°F. Line your baking tray with parchment paper.
- Mix the flour, baking powder, pumpkin pie spice, ground cardamom, cloves, and salt in a large bowl, then set it aside.
- Beat the butter and sugars in a stand mixer on medium-high speed for 2 to 3 minutes. Scrape down the sides as needed until the mixture is creamy and fluffy.
- Add the egg and molasses and mix until fully incorporated.
- Add the dry ingredients to the butter mixture in batches, mixing until a cookie dough forms.
- Remove the dough from the bowl, gently flatten it, wrap it in plastic wrap, and chill it in the refrigerator for 1 hour.
- Once chilled, scoop a tablespoon of dough and roll it between your palms. Flatten it slightly before placing it on the baking tray.
- Repeat with the remaining dough and arrange the cookies on the tray. Bake for 12 to 13 minutes.
- Let the cookies sit on the tray for 5 minutes, then transfer them to a cooling rack to cool completely.
WHITE CHOCOLATE COATING:
- Melt the white chocolate chips with the coconut oil in the microwave in 20-second intervals. Stir after each interval and keep an eye on it so it does not burn.
- Divide the melted chocolate into separate bowls. Leave one bowl plain, then split the remaining chocolate into two more bowls.
- Color the chocolate in the two smaller bowls with red and green gel food coloring. You should now have white, red, and green melted chocolate.
- Pour the red and green chocolate into separate piping bags.
- Line a tray with parchment paper.
- Dip half of each cookie into the white chocolate, then gently run the bottom of the cookie along the edge of the bowl to remove any excess.
- Place the half-coated cookies on the lined tray and let them set.
- Finally, decorate the cookies with the red and green chocolate to match the Christmas theme.
Notes
- If you’re worried about your white chocolate burning or setting too quickly, melt it in batches!
- Besides tinted white chocolate, you can also decorate these white chocolate dipped cookies with Christmas-themed treats like colorful sprinkles and M&M’s. Dried cranberries and chopped pistachios also fit the red and green theme perfectly.
- You can prepare your cookie dough a day in advance, wrap it in plastic wrap, and store it in the fridge. If you’re making a big batch of these holiday white chocolate coated cookies, they stay fresh in an airtight container for up to 3 days at room temperature.
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