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Double Chocolate Holiday Mint Cookies

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Hey yall!  I have a real treat for everyone [double meaning!] – my sweet friend Jayna is going to share a delicious recipe with us today.  I met Jayna at Bloggy Boot Camp and she is amazing.. seriously.  Check out her recipe and stop by her blog – Behind the Studio – and say hello!
 

Double chocolate holiday mint cookies

If there’s one thing I love during the holidays, it’s anything chocolate mint. I’ve been known to eat an entire bag of mint chips that were really meant for baking something! This is one of my mom’s old recipe’s, only difference was, she used regular chocolate chips rather than the mint chips I used. You could swap it out for white chocolate, or peanut butter chips too – I’m sure that would be soooo good!

 
My mother would always make this recipe whenever my school had a bake sale and I needed to bring something. Depending on the size you make the cookies, your dough can go a long way! The other reason was because they were sooo good, there were never any leftovers.
Double chocolate holiday mint cookies
Recipe Type: Cookies
Author: Jayna Denbow
Ingredients
•          8 unsweetened baker’s squares
•          4 cups white sugar
•          8 eggs
•          1 cup vegetable oil
•          4 tsp vanilla
•          4 cups of flour
•          4 tsp baking powder
•          12oz bag of mint chocolate chips (or regular chocolate chips)
•          1 tsp salt
•          icing sugar
Instructions
1.        Melt chocolate on top of stove using water bath to melt…not directly on heat.
2.        Put it into the mixer and combine with oil and sugar.
3.        Add 1 egg at a time.
4.        Stir in vanilla and chocolate chips.
5.        Add in dry ingredients…chill for 2 hours, roll into balls about 1″
6.        Use a little melon baller to scoop them out or you can use your hands to roll into balls, then roll in the icing sugar, put on a cookie sheet and bake them at 350 degrees for 10 minutes…..yum!!
First, I melted the unsweetened baker’s squares over a pot of boiling water, so it melted nicely. Sometimes, melting in the microwave can burn your chocolate – I used to do this, but this is how I melt chocolate now.

 

Then, once it’s all melted, combine it with the sugar and oil and mix it up.

 

Add in the vanilla, and the eggs one by one. Once that’s all combined, add in the dry ingredients slowly. Chill the entire bowl in the fridge for a minimum of 2 hours or overnight.

Once it’s ready the dough will be firm, and now it’s time to roll it into 1″ balls.

 

And then coat it in icing sugar before putting it on the cookie sheet.

 

 


Bake them at 350F for 10 minutes. Be sure to use parchment paper to bake on – my cookies always turn out perfect when I do!

They also transport nicely in a big tin!

 

  
Enjoy!!!


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Comments

  10. Joyce Purdy says

    Can I make these cookie s through rolling in ball and then freeze? I would then defrost and roll in powder sugar then bake.

    Please let me know your thoughts on this.

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