Chocolate Mint Sandwich Cookies

These cookies! They are just so good! Soft and chewy cookies sandwiching a minty buttercream frosting. They’re good! They are a great Christmas cookie or they are great year round. My family calls them Chocolate Peppermint Cremes, but you can call them what you want. They’re chocolate mint sandwich cookies and they are good!

Trust me on this one! Try them!

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Chocolate Mint Sandwich Cookies:

Ingredients: (Printable Recipe below)

•  1 1/2 C brown sugar
• 2 Tbsp water
• 3/4 C margarine (1 and a half sticks)
• 2 C semi sweet chocolate chips
• 2 eggs (beaten)
• 1 tsp salt
• 1 1/4 tsp baking soda
• 3 C flour

Instructions: 

Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.

Mix the dry ingredients together and set aside.

In a large pan on the stove over medium high heat, melt the brown sugar, water and margarine together and stir. Heat until it boils.

Remove from heat and stir in the chocolate chips. Mix until melted.

Beat your eggs with a fork and then stir them into the chocolate mixture.

Add the dry ingredients and stir them in until completely combined.

Roll into one inch balls and drop onto a cookie sheet (preferably with a Silpat mat). If you don’t have a Silpat mat make sure you have a greased cookie sheet.

Bake for about 7-8 minutes. Cookie should be just starting to have cracks in it.

Use a ziploc bag full of your frosting to squeeze about a Tablespoon onto a cookie. Sandwich with another cookie.

Then eat!

Printable recipe:

Chocolate Peppermint Cremes

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• Author: Crazy Little Projects

Ingredients

• 3 C Flour
• 1 1/4 tsp baking soda
• 1 tsp salt
• 1 1/2 C brown sugar
• 3/4 C margarine
• 2 Tbsp water
• 2 C chocolate chips
• 2 eggs

Instructions

1. Sift dry ingredients together and set aside.
2. In a large pot mix brown sugar, margarine, and water and heat on the stove until it starts to boil.
3. Add chocolate chips and stir until melted.
4. Remove from heat.
5. Beat in eggs.
6. Stir in dry ingredients.
7. 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.
8. Bake for 8 minutes at 350 degrees. Best if still soft.
9. Sandwich and frost with peppermint frosting.

Peppermint Frosting:

• 4 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.)

Combine above ingredients until smooth. Pipe onto cookie and put another cookie on top.

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