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Cookies |
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Ingredients: 1½ cup butter (softened)
1 cup powdered sugar
4 oz unsweetened baking chocolate
½ tsp. peppermint extract
3 cups all purpose flour
1 bag miniature semi-sweet chocolate chips
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Directions:1. Preheat oven to 375º F
2. Melt baking chocolate by microwaving on high for 30 seconds at a time, stirring in between. Allow to cool a bit.
3. In a large mixing bowl, cream butter and powdered sugar.
4. Beat in melted chocolate and mint extract.
5. Gradually add flour.
6. Reserve about ¼ cup of mini-chocolate chips for later and mix in the remainder. Dough will be soft.
7. Drop by the (heaping) tablespoon full on an ungreased baking sheet. I always flatten the tops a bit with my hand or a glass to make icing easier later.
8. Bake for 6-8 minutes until firm and allow to cool completely. |
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Icing |
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Ingredients: ¼ butter (softened)
2 cups powdered sugar
2 tbsp milk
½ tsp peppermint extract
3 + drops of green food coloring
reserved chocolate chips to be used as drizzle
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Directions:1. While the cookies cool, combine butter, powdered sugar, and milk and mix until thick and creamy.
2. Add food coloring a drop at a time until you reach desired color. When baking these for Christmas or St. Patricks Day, we like to make them a hearty green (so more like 6-8 drops of food coloring) but the rest of the time we keep the green light so they look more mint green (3 drops or so).
3. Spread icing on each cooled cookie.
4. Put the mini chocolate chips you saved from earlier into a small ziplock bag and microwave, 15 second at a time, squishing the bag to mix well between heating. Do not over heat - they will burn!
5. Once fully melted snip a tiny hole in a bottom corner of the ziplock to turn the whole bag into a piping bag. Squeeze the bag to drizzle the chocolate over the cookies in a zigzag pattern.
6. The icing and chocolate can take some time to set hard, so if you need them to set quickly, you can place them in the fridge or freezer.
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Number Of
Servings:4 dozen or so |
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Preparation
Time:no idea, I've never timed it! |
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Notes: Elliott once cried for 45 minutes when I accidentally put mint toothpaste on his toothbrush instead of the usual kid's stuff. He proceeded to remind us every subsequent teeth brushing to be sure not to do that again. The same happened with an accidental application of mint lip balm. So you can imagine our surprise when I made these (MY favorite Christmas cookie from when I was a kid) and Elliott absolutely adored them. They remain his favorite and a family staple ever since, however mint toothpaste and lip balm are still out of the question.
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