Ingredients
2/3 cup butter
3/4 cup packed light brown sugar
3/4 cup granulated sugar
1 tbsp water
1 tsp vanilla extract
2 eggs
1-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1/3 cup cocoa
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 tsp baking soda
2 cups (12-oz. package) mint chips or mint chocolate chips
Directions
Preheat oven to 375F. In the meantime, combine butter (at room temperature), brown sugar, water, and vanilla in large bowl and beat on medium speed until they are well blended. Add the eggs and beat well. In a medium bowl, stir together flour, cocoa, salt, and baking soda. Gradually add the dry ingredients to the sugar mixture, beating on low speed until just blended. Stir or gently blend in the mint chocolate chips.
Drop by spoonfuls about 2 inches apart onto an ungreased cookie sheet. Bake 7 to 9 minutes or until the cookies appear set. The cookies should still appear soft and moist. Remove from oven and cool on the pan for another 2-3 minutes; remove from cookies from sheet and let them finish cooling on a wire rack. Wear cookie pants, increase mileage, give utensils covered in dough to less metabolically challenged love one, share at a cookie exchange party or all of the above to prevent massively expanding waistline.
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As you can see, there was no shortage of cookies at the party. (There were actually even more cookies that didn't make it to the table.) It was a great time, and we left with almost as many cookies as we brought with us. The dangerous thing is that my mother has requested that I make the chocolate mint chocolate chip cookies when I visit her over the break.... It's a good thing that I'm gearing up to start marathon training in just under a month....
What are your favorite Christmas cookies to make? Have you ever been to or hosted a cookie exchange party?
So far, I've done no Christmas baking at all, although I did make apple pie last week just for us -- thank goodness I could count on my husband to eat most of it himself.
ReplyDeleteIf I were going to bake, though, I think it would have to be the classic shortbread -- never can get enough!
Yum! I miss going to cookie exchanges, but they are not an option for me now that I know about my gluten intolerance. :( My favorite holiday cookie is the peanut butter blossom aka kiss cookies. I think that Phil and I might make buckeyes together on Saturday when we have our Christmas celebration as he really enjoys baking! And while they don't require any actual baking, they are a lot of work so I thought it'd be fun to make them together.
ReplyDeleteI've never been to a cookie exchange but I have to say it looks insanely delicious. I'm going to have to try to throw something like that together next year...
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I assume my invitation to this cookie exchange party just got lost in the mail...?
ReplyDeleteYour cookies are a different twist on the mint chocolate chip cookie theme! I have two different recipes, and they call for mint extract in a cocoa-flavored dough with regular chocolate chips. I believe this observation calls for a cookie taste-off, don't you think?
These look yummy, and I need a dessert to take to a pot luck this weekend so I might try these out - love the touch of mint!
ReplyDeleteThose look good! I make the very similar ones except mine have a little more butter and I use peppermint extract and regular chocolate chips. I love cookies! Thanks for the new recipe; I will have to try those!
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