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Your New Favorite Chocolate Mint Cookie Recipe

At the risk of sounding dramatic, these cookies are unbelievable! They are easy, soft, perfect chocolate mint flavor and pretty! I surprise myself at how good they are every time I make them! Everyone needs these in their life!
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Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 9 minutes
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Servings 24 cookies

Ingredients
  

  • 1 3/4 cups All-Purpose Flour
  • 1/2 tsp Baking Soda
  • 1/4 tsp Salt
  • 1/4 cup Unsweetened Cocoa Powder
  • 1/2 cup Unsalted Butter Room Temperature
  • 1/2 cup Granulated Sugar
  • 1/2 cup Light Brown Sugar
  • 1 Egg Room Temperature
  • 1 tsp Vanilla Extract
  • 1 tsp Peppermint Emulsion (I use LorAnn's)

Drizzle

  • 2 Tbsp Salted Butter Melted
  • 1 cup Powdered Sugar
  • 1/4 tsp Peppermint Emulsion
  • 4 tsp Milk
  • 1/4 cup Semi-Sweet Mini Chocolate Chips

Instructions
 

  • If I know I’ll be baking, I pull my butter out of the fridge the night before to get to room temp. But if you’re baking spontaneously, no worries, just zap your butter in the microwave on half-power for about 12 seconds.
  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
  • I use parchment paper sheets on my cookie sheets and reuse them for all my batches that day.
  • In your mixer bowl (or large bowl with hand-mixer) cream butter and both sugars until light and smooth, about 2-3 minutes.
  • Beat in the egg, vanilla extract and peppermint emulsion, until smooth.
  • In a separate small bowl, combine flour, baking soda, salt and cocoa. Add to wet ingredient mixing bowl a little at a time.
  • Mix until thoroughly blended.
  • Form dough into balls slightly larger than an inch in size and place a few inches apart on parchment lined cookie sheet.
    Chocolate Mint Cookie Recipe
  • Bake at 350 for 9-10 minutes. They will be puffy, and edges will be set.
  • Cool cookies on cookie sheet for a few minutes before transferring to cooking rack to cool completely.
  • These cookies are insanely delicious plain, or you can dress them up with drizzle and chocolate chips (see below)!

Drizzle Instructions

  • Mix melted butter, powdered sugar, and peppermint emulsion together.
  • Add milk slowly and keep stirring.
  • Drizzle will thicken up and whiten as you stir for a few minutes.
  • Drizzle over cookies using a piping bag, sandwich bag with a cut corner or with a fork.
  • Sprinkle immediately with mini chocolate chips.

Notes

A note about cocoa:
I use Hershey's unsweetened cocoa powder for this recipe.
A note about emulsions & extracts:
Emulsions are water-based whereas extracts are alcohol-based. You can substitute emulsions and extracts 1:1, however, emulsions give a much fuller flavor since they don't "bake out" when subjected to high heat.
 
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