Friday, December 2, 2011

Chocolate mint cookies

I'm not the best cookie-baker, but I do like to make cookies (and eat the results). Yesterday I decided to bake some chocolate chip cookies using Andes mints pieces instead of chocolate chips, but I couldn't find my chocolate chip cookie recipe. So I experimented a little and came up with this really yummy recipe.

Warning: these cookies are very addictive!!!

Chocolate mint cookies
3/4 cup packed light brown sugar
3/4 cup white sugar
1 tbsp vanilla extract
1 cup butter (2 sticks), softened
2 eggs
2 cups flour
1/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 bag (12 oz, I think?) Andes mints pieces

Preheat oven to 375.
Cream sugars, vanilla, and butter together. Add eggs and beat until light and fluffy.
Add flour, cocoa powder, baking soda and salt.


Then beat together until nice and creamy. Resist the urge to eat all of the cookie dough.


Stir in Andes mints, and drop by rounded spoonfuls onto a greased cookie sheet. Bake for 9-12 minutes at 375 degrees.

They taste like Thin Mints (the Girl Scout cookies) and I should have made a half batch because I can't stop eating them. So delicious. Enjoy!
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2 comments:

  1. AnonymousDecember 2, 2011 at 9:57 AM

    Aren't those things the best? Just fyi, when you're in a pinch, the recipe on the Andes package is pretty good too. . . yay for Christmas cookies! Our swap is tomorrow. . . so tonight, I have Millionaire's Shorbread on the schedule.

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  2. MariaDecember 2, 2011 at 12:43 PM

    Oh, you know, I didn't even notice a recipe on the Andes package. Ha ha ha! Yum, shortbread! Let me know how it goes and I'll also need your recipe. ;-)

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