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With their strong cocoa taste, lots of chocolate chips, and fun peppermint twist, these vegan peppermint chocolate cookies are great for Christmas. You can make them quickly and enjoy them right away.

Ingredients: 2 cups all-purpose flour. 1/2 cup cocoa powder. 1 teaspoon baking soda. 1/4 teaspoon salt. 1/2 cup vegan butter, softened. 1 cup brown sugar. 1/4 cup maple syrup. 1/4 cup almond milk. 1 teaspoon vanilla extract. 1/2 teaspoon peppermint extract. 1 cup dairy-free chocolate chips. Crushed candy canes for topping.

Instructions: Preheat oven to 350F 175C and line baking sheets with parchment paper. In a bowl, whisk together flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, and salt. In another bowl, cream together vegan butter and brown sugar until light and fluffy. Add maple syrup, almond milk, vanilla extract, and peppermint extract to the creamed mixture. Mix well. Gradually add dry ingredients to wet ingredients, mixing until well combined. Fold in chocolate chips. Using a cookie scoop, drop dough onto prepared baking sheets. Flatten each dough ball slightly with the back of a spoon. Bake for 10-12 minutes, or until edges are set. Remove from oven and sprinkle crushed candy canes on top of each cookie, pressing them in slightly. Allow cookies to cool on baking sheets for 5 minutes, then transfer to wire racks to cool completely.

Prep Time: 15 minutes

Cook Time: 10 minutes

PEPPERMINT TWIST: THE MUSICAL   -  A New Live Dance Musical Theater Production

Executive Producers:  Steve Kulyk – Joey Dee – Peppermint Twist, LLC

                                      http://www.PeppermintTwistTheMusical.com

A pop culture phenomenon is coming to the musical stage!  If you are looking for an energetic, colorful, fun stage musical, this is it!  “Peppermint Twist The Musical” will be an uplifting, irresistible, electrifying stage musical and not just another “Jersey Boys”, but much, much more. The stage musical will include an exhilarating, heart-stirring “plot” with a story and with real characters and elements of drama, dancing, acting, singing, comedy, and nostalgia, etc.

It will take us on a nostalgic journey through one of the most eventful and fantastic eras of our time.  It will center around the incredible career of the living legend of Joey Dee & The Starliters, The Peppermint Twist® “World-Wide” Dance phenomena, The legendary World Famous “Peppermint Lounge®” night club.  And of course The Mob, it’s activity and obsession to control and make money.  It will be an inspiring true story behind the extraordinary era that changed minds, touched lives, made history and transformed America.

The show will be a stage spectacle filled with unforgettable songs, dances, and music.  Imagine an inspiring new stage musical overflowing with energy and power. It will have dynamic dance numbers from beginning to end. You will be listening, singing and dancing to some of the most beloved and memorable songs of the era! Prepare to be on your feet from start to finish!

Peppermint Twist The Musical will be the ultimate feel-good fun show that will resonate with audiences by coming back again and again to relive the fond memories of their youth.

We are going to bring back The Twist dance to familiar audiences and ‘introduce it to a new generation’ that is very hungry for fun dance moves, good times, entertainment and uplifting songs that everyone can enjoy, young and old.

The audience will happily get transported back in time when singing and dancing was incredibly popular internationally with all ages. There is absolutely no doubt that Peppermint Twist The Musical will be a very crowd-pleasing live stage musical that will hit the big jackpot.

This story, in our professional judgment, has the potential to be a huge hit on Broadway, on tour and globally. Peppermint Twist The Musical has the profitable worldwide huge potential to be another “Jersey Boys”.

It will be a social event that will attract theater goer’s non-stop. The audience will fall in love with the soundtrack of their youth and experience each performance that echo's back to the time period of these iconic hits and dances. Millennials will discover the magic of the infectious Twist Dance throughout the full-length musical stage production.