What I am about to show you is one of my 2 favorite Christmas cookies recipes. The other will follow in a week or two. These things are killer. SO yummy! The only problem is that they are sandwich cookies, so when you eat 1 cookie, it’s like eating 2. But we can pretend it’s not, right?
I introduce you to Chocolate Peppermint Creme Cookies:
Oh I am a sucker for these guys. They make a great Christmas cookie but can also be made year round.
Here’s the recipe.
Chocolate Mint Cookies:
Chocolate Peppermint Cremes
Author: Crazy Little Projects
Ingredients
- 3 C Flour
- 1¼ tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp salt
- 1½ C brown sugar
- ¾ C margarine
- 2 Tbsp water
- 2 C chocolate chips
- 2 eggs
Instructions
- Sift dry ingredients together and set aside.
- In a large pot mix brown sugar, margarine, and water and heat on the stove until it starts to boil.
- Add chocolate chips and stir until melted.
- Remove from heat.
- Beat in eggs.
- Stir in dry ingredients.
- Roll into balls (if it is too soft, wait for a few minutes-it will firm up a little). If needed, add a little more flour.
- Bake for 8 minutes at 350 degrees. Best if still soft.
- Sandwich and frost with peppermint frosting.
Peppermint Frosting:
- 2 C Powdered Sugar
- 1/3 C soft butter (not margarine)
- About 1/3 cup warm water
- 1/8 tsp peppermint extract
- Green food coloring (just as a note, I don’t usually make mine such a bright green. More of a mint is better.)
Blend these ingredients, then beat in 2 more cups of powdered sugar alternately with 1/4 C milk.
These look like a delicious treat! I hope you’ll share this post at our Holiday Cookie Recipe Swap at http://thedomesticatedprincess.blogspot.com/2012/11/cookie-recipe-exchange-week-3.html.
Chocolate and mint is one of my favorite combinations of ingredients! And in my book, a sandwich cookie counts a single cookie–always. ;)
These look so yummy! Thanks for sharing them Amber! xoxo
I love chocolate and mint …these sound terrific!
Thanks so much for linking up at I Gotta Create! <3 Christina
Wow! These look so yummy! I love the green! Thank you for linking up to “It’s a DIY Christmas” at Putting Down Roots! Hope to see you again!
I love mint in every kind and form! Thanks for the inspiration, it is really much appreciated!
Did not turn out at all :( makes me so sad to waste good ingredients. The Frosting was way too watery and took well over 3 cups of powdered sugar to get a thicker consistency. The cookies themselves spread and ran all over my cookie sheets. I made sure to follow the recipe to a T (I am very careful when trying new recipes) The cookies (that I was able to salvage) also taste very bland…not sure where I went wrong. Bummer!
Bummer! Did you use margarine or butter? Butter will make them spread more. And did you add extra flour? I had to add more flour to make them so that I could roll them into balls.