Chocolate Mint Cookies

These chocolate mint cookies have a crunchy edge with a soft interior, giving them a nice chew. They are easy to make and taste amazing.

The chocolate cookie dough just takes a few minutes to put together. Stir in bits of chopped Andes mints to get a lovely pop of cool mint.

This recipe makes about 3 dozen medium cookies. However, you may want to consider doubling the recipe because they are just that good.

Like most cookies, these freeze well. You can also freeze to dough to bake later if you would like.

Just make sure you give these cookies a try. You will be glad you did!

Chocolate + Mint = A Perfect Pairing

The combination of mint and chocolate always makes me think of Christmas. Whether it’s candy cane ice cream topped with simple hot fudge sauce or a box of fine chocolates with mint meltaways, the flavors are sure to put a smile on my face and a ho ho ho in my head.

But please don’t only make these cookies for the holidays, they are great year round. Chocolate and mint taste just as good together in March as they do in December.

While chocolate and mint are perfect together, I have mixed luck with using mint extracts. Whether they are peppermint or spearmint, you have to have a very light touch.

If you overdo it, my brothers will be spattering and claiming you are feeding them toothpaste. Ha! I’m sure we’re not the only ones!

So I prefer to add those flavors in an already diluted and manageable form. That’s why I added crushed candy canes on Monday’s peppermint mocha cookies and today we’re adding the Andes mints to get the chocolate flavor.

It’s a lot harder to overdo it when you start with an already delicious on its own candy. I also like these cookies because they are simple drop cookies.

I love decorated sugar cookies and gingerbread men as much as the next person at Christmas. But when you have a dozen types of cookies on your wish list and you want variety on your cookie trays, it’s nice to have some that aren’t super time-consuming.

I started these off with a pretty basic chocolate cookie base, and then I stirred a bunch of chopped Andes mints. So these are chalk full of goodness.

Tips for Making Great Cookies

Using room-temperature butter will give your cookies a lighter, fluffier texture. Being able to cream the butter and sugar together properly is key to getting that desired lightness.

Preheat your oven before you start baking. This will help your cookies bake evenly and prevent them from spreading too much.

If your cookies do start spreading too much, you can refrigerate the cookie dough for 20 minutes. This will help keep the butter from getting too warm before the cookies bake.

If you want to enhance the mint flavor in these cookies, you can replace half of the vanilla with peppermint extract.

If you want to learn more about baking cookies, check out my tips for baking the perfect cookies every time.