Ingredients
- 1 cup butter, softened
- 1 cup confectioners’ sugar
- 2 teaspoons peppermint extract
- 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup rolled oats
- 1/3 cup crushed peppermint candies
- 2 tablespoons confectioners’ sugar, or as needed
- 1 tablespoon very finely crushed peppermint candies, or as needed
Directions
Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C).
Beat butter and 1 cup confectioners' sugar in a large bowl until creamy and smooth; stir peppermint extract into butter mixture. Whisk flour and salt in a bowl and stir into butter mixture. Gently fold rolled oats and 1/3 cup crushed peppermint candies into the dough.
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Drop dough by teaspoonful onto ungreased baking sheets, leaving 3 inches between cookies; press cookies 1/4 inch thick with your fingertips.
Bake in the preheated oven until cookies have lightly browned edges, 10 to 12 minutes. Let cookies cool on baking sheets for at least 5 minutes before removing to finish cooling on wire racks.
Stir 2 tablespoons confectioners' sugar with 1 tablespoon very finely crushed peppermint candies in a small bowl; transfer to a fine-mesh wire strainer. Dust cooled cookies with peppermint candy mixture.
