RECIPE: I received these on a cookie platter from one of the PTO ladies. REC: Chocolate Mint Cookies

RECIPE:
dawn_mo

dawn_mo

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I thought these were very good, and generally, I do not like chocolate cookies. They were a very thin cookie with the melted chocolate on top.

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Chocolate Mint Cookies

Recipe By : Kelly Douglas

Serving Size : 0 Preparation Time :0:00

Categories : Christmas Cookies

Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method

3/4 cup butter1 1/2 cups brown sugar

2 tablespoons water

12 ounces semi sweet chocolate chips

2 eggs

2 1/2 cups flour

1 1/4 teaspoons baking soda

1/2 teaspoon salt

70 Andes Creme de Menthe Thins

Melt butter, sugar, water in saucepan on low until melted. Add chocolate chips and stir until melted. Remove from heat. Allow to cool about 10 minutes. Beat in eggs. Stir in combined flour, soda and salt; beat just until blended. chill one hour. Take teaspoons of dough and roll into balls. Place on foil lined cookie sheets (parchment paper) and bake at 350 degrees for 9 minutes. Immediately place one mint candy over cookie, allow it to melt and spread over top of cookie. Remove to cooling rack.

Makes 70 cookies

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I'm alsked for the recipe for these whenever I make them for a platter or bake sale.

They make a ton so I usually freeze half the dough.

 
Well, they are chocolate and minty, but they are chewy not crispy.

I really liked them as they were very thin and chewy, not crunchy.

 
THese looks great, Dawn. I sent the link to my choco-mint loving sister, maybe....

she'll say pop in and say "Hi".....

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Yes, firm, it is. It would open it up for other meltable candies too.

The chocolate is very mild, and actually so is the mint.

 
There was an error in the recipe. 2 1/2 teaspoons flour should be 2 1/2 cups flour.

Thanks Michael for letting me know. I edited the recipe with the correct measurments.

 
DawnNYS's tweak - there's always a tweak

I made up the liquid portion of the recipe, and when I realized I was out of eggs(!) I put it in the refrigerator until I went to the store.

The next day, when I melted it to continue with the cookie recipe, I tasted it and found it was a lot like the fudge I had intended to make, so instead of using it all (I wanted something a little more cake-like), I only used half of the mixture. Added a few butterscotch chips to it and put it in the refrigerator for fudge.

Now back to the cookies. I had to add something to make up for the difference in volume of the missing fudgey portion, so I added 1/4 cup of sour cream and 1/4 cup of creame cheese (light, of course! ;o)) and 3 eggs instead of 2. Topped them with a little piece of York peppermint patty (also out of Andes mints) and baked them in the oven at 350 for 10 minutes.

Next time I'll try the Andes candies on top of the baked cookie as written, because these ended up looking like little chocolate volanoes, but they were great!! Probably far away from Kelly's/Dawn_MO's original recipe, but very good.

 
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