marvelous chocolate mint cookies
I know, I know. It’s the first week of January. The holidays are over and you’re cookied out. But we haven’t had the full 12 days of Christmas so the holidays aren’t really over yet, are they? Plus, it’s not too late to celebrate the new year! Because I still have two more cookie recipes to share with you!
The first are these chocolate mint cookies that are really fast to throw together and fun to make. It starts off ordinarily enough. Cook up some simple but tasty chocolate cookies and you may think you’re done there, but no! This is where the fun begins!
Place an Andes mint on top of each cookie immediately after you’ve taken them out of the oven and watch the mints slowly soften into the cookies. And then my favorite part: spread the melting chocolatey minty goodness all over the cookie like it’s frosting. Because it is. Proverbially and literally, the frosting on the cookie makes this one tasty treat.
Happy New Year! I hope you’re celebrating with good food!
Ingredients
- 1 1/4 cups all purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 6 tablespoons (3/4 stick) unsalted butter
- 3/4 cup packed light brown sugar
- 6 ounces bittersweet chocolate, chopped
- 1 large egg
- 36 pieces Andes chocolate mints, unwrapped
Instructions
- Adjust oven racks to upper-middle and lower-middle positions and heat oven to 350 degrees. Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper.
- Combine flour, baking soda, and salt in a medium bowl. Melt butter and brown sugar in medium saucepan over low heat. Add bittersweet chocolate, cover pan with lid, and let stand off heat until chocolate melts, about 4 minutes. Stir until smooth, transfer chocolate to bowl of electric mixer, and let cool for about 10 minutes.
- With electric mixer on medium speed, beat egg into cooled chocolate mixture until throughly combined. Reduce speed to low and mix in flour mixture until just combined, about 1 minute. Cover dough with plastic wrap and refrigerate until firm, about 1 hour.
- Roll 2 teaspoons dough into 1-inch balls and place 2 inches apart on prepared baking sheets. Bake until cookies are just set, 10-12 minutes, rotating and switching baking sheets halfway through baking time (if you are baking them at the same time). Remove from oven, top each hot cookie with 1 mint, and allow chocolate to soften, about 1 minute. Using knife, spread softened mint over top of cookie and transfer to rack to cool completely, about 30 minutes. (Cookies can be stored in airtight container at room temperature for up to 1 week.)
January 6th, 2012 at 7:33 am
I admire you posting a cookie recipe this week. That took guts. And they look delicious. 🙂
January 8th, 2012 at 5:57 pm
Thanks! Yeah, I knew the timing wasn’t the best. But there’s plenty of time left in the year to eat healthy, right?
January 6th, 2012 at 9:19 am
I can attest that these are FANTASTIC cookies. Someone nice brought us some over the holidays and they were my favorite! Really really tasty, so I’m very happy to have the recipe so I can make them myself.
January 8th, 2012 at 5:58 pm
🙂 I’m glad you liked them!
January 6th, 2012 at 11:22 am
Mint + chocolate = YUM. I think I’ll throw a couple green sprinkles on top and make them for St. Patty’s day too.
January 8th, 2012 at 5:59 pm
That’s a fantastic idea! Or, if you wanted to go super minty, you could cut up some more Andes to sprinkle on top. It wouldn’t give you any green, but it would give you more Andes which I just can’t argue with!
January 6th, 2012 at 11:25 am
I love Andes mints!! I made a point even of having them at my wedding. Can’t wait to try these!
January 8th, 2012 at 6:00 pm
Me too! I love most chocolate/mint candies, but Andes are my favorites!
January 6th, 2012 at 2:35 pm
Andes mints remind me of vacation (and hotels)! This would be a fun treat to have at home. You cannot go wrong with mint and chocolate !
January 6th, 2012 at 4:44 pm
Andes mints are one of my faves! These cookies sound like the perfect treat =)
January 6th, 2012 at 7:03 pm
Chocolate + Mint = Delicious! I am ALL over these! Yum!
Have a great weekend.
January 7th, 2012 at 11:21 am
These look amazing! I love that the mint isn’t so obvious (like crumbled peppermint candies on top) so they look a little more chic. That could make for a nice surprise to someone unsuspecting also haha.
July 12th, 2013 at 5:49 am
I cannot think of cookies with mint favour. They are looking amazingly delicious like a melted chocolate is poured on hard frozen chocolate. Thank you for this wonderful idea with the recipe. I am really gonna make it this evening.