Chocolate Peppermint Patty Cookies

Last summer, I discovered Pinterest and saw recipes for cookies with candy inside them. I tried a couple recipes and they were really good!  Chocolate chip cookies with mini Reese's cups or Rolo's inside are quite yummy!  I got the idea that a chocolate cookie with York Peppermint Patties inside would taste good, then I never tried it until a couple weeks ago.  It's really good!  Here's what I used:

I found the cookie dough at HEB.  It's 24 little breakaway squares and you have to use two per cookie for this recipe because of the peppermint patties.  So it makes 12 generous cookies.

Now you basically follow the package directions.  First, you preheat the oven to 350°. Then I always spray my cookie sheet with cooking spray before I bake.  I don't care that they say "ungreased baking sheet".  It's going to stick and I'm going to have pry my cookies off the cookie sheet.  No, thank you!

Now I opened the package of cookie dough and set the sheet of dough pieces outside of its package for easy access, and I opened up 12 peppermint patties and set them on their wrappers, again for easy access.  Cookie dough gets sticky on your fingers after a while, and having everything accessible seems to help.  

Now I start assembling.  Take one square of dough and sort of flatten it with your fingers. Place a peppermint patty on top and place another slightly flattened/smushed piece of dough on top of it.  Press the edges all the way around to close it so you can't see the peppermint patty and place it on the cookie sheet.  Repeat this 11 times.  By the time you're done, the oven will be hot and you can place the cookie sheet inside.  The package says 12 -16 minutes.  I usually set a timer for the lowest time, turn on the oven light, and check on it once in a while.  My cookies were done in 12 minutes.  (Somehow you just know - they look done, they smell done, they aren't burnt yet.)  Then you let them cool for about 2 minutes before taking them off the cookie sheet.  I don't recommend eating them before they have had a chance to cool.  (Believe me, I know.)

This is what they looked like after they cooled:

I tried to show in the cookie that's front and center how the warm candy center wants to ooze out of the cookie.  My mom and sister said these were the best cookies I'd ever made.  My mom won't let me make them at her house anymore (too tempting).  My sister, however, had no qualms about me making a batch at my house and bringing her some!