Double Chocolate Mint Chip Cookies
These cookies are the answer when the question is: Where can I get a dark chocolatey, minty buttery, white flour concoction before I go crazy?! Much like the flank steak I posted about last week, I’ve had a hard time photographing these scrumptious little goodies. Every time I make them (or someone else makes them for me, i.e. my awesome neighbor) they disappear. So go on, make them for yourself. Make them for your friends, your family, your children…they will thank you profusely. And you won’t have to worry about having them hanging around the house tempting you because they will be gone.
2 1/4 c flour
1/2 c unsweetened cocoa powder
1 tsp salt
1 tsp baking soda
2 sticks butter, softened
1 c granulated sugar
1 c packed brown sugar
2 large eggs
1 tbsp vanilla (yes, a tablespoon)
1 – 1 1/2 c dark or semi-sweet chocolate chips
a 3.5 oz dark mint chocolate bar, chopped up
Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
Chop up your mint bar and then combine those pieces with enough dark chocolate chips to measure two cups. Set aside.
In a medium bowl, mix together your flour, cocoa powder, salt and baking soda. Set aside
In a large bowl, combine your sugars and then drop in your butter.
Cream together your butter and sugars either with an electric mixer or some powerful biceps and triceps.
Add your eggs, one at a time making sure each one is mixed in well.
Stir in your vanilla.
A little at a time, stir in your flour mixture until it is completely combined with the butter and sugar mixture.
Fold in your chocolate chips.
Drop by spoonfuls onto a greased cookie sheet or a cookie sheet fitted with a Silpat liner.
Bake about 10 minutes.
Cool for at least a minute on the pan then move to a wire rack to finish cooling.
As with most cookies, these taste best warm so if a day or two has gone by since you made them, don’t hesitate to pop your cookie in the microwave for 20-30 seconds and get the chocolate warm and melted.
Enjoy!
NOTE: This dough can be made ahead of time and kept in the fridge for 2-3 days and in the freezer for months. These cookies are delicious as is but taste even better when the dough is refrigerated for a day or two.
YIELD: About 2 dozen
I am now craving cookies for breakfast! Love these!
“Breakfast of Champions!”, I say. I mean isn’t dark chocolate full of antioxidants?? It’s practically a “health food.”
Yum. Yum. Yum. They didn’t last 24 hours in my house.
Here too….made a batch yesterday. Went to get one for breakfast (see above note)….gone. Gads…
oh me oh my oh. what a treasure of a girl and how the universe doth provide! have fun making them for the world this morning!! sorry i don’t own a tv or i would be glooooed. 🙂
Thank you dear Heaven!
Heavens to Betsy these look amazing!
So does your Caramel Apple Crunch Pie!! I’m definitely going to have to try that one out Ms. Sheila!
Oh my goodness. LOVE. PS – I don’t know when you redesigned your site (I usually just read in google reader), but clicking through today was a nice surprise. Beautiful look!
Thank you for stopping by Shannalee. Hope you enjoyed your trip to Oregon!!
I made these over the weekend and they are FABULOUS!
So glad they turned out for you, Helen. I had fun making them with you last week!
Just found your site!! Too bad I didn’t find it last week I could have watched you on am nw…I live near McMinnville! Chocolate and mint is my favorite combo–can’t wait to try!!!!
farmerswife, Thanks so much for stopping by and saying hello! I make an appearance on AMNW the third Wednesday of every month should you like to check it out sometime. Have a wonderful day!!
Now I NEED chocolate but I don’t want to get out of bed. Wish I had a stack of these cookies right here!
Lovely photos… miss you, my friend!
Wish I could bring you a stack of these cookies and we could share them over coffee. Miss you too. Thank you for stopping by, my dear Kristen!
What a great story, needs and wants all mix together when it comes to chocolate or other delicious things. I SO agree on the organizing front, I always have to explain to Mr. Splendid, it has to get worse before it can get better {and you must be patient!} Love your blog! Kris Smith sent me over.
Splendid Market, Thank you for stopping by! Glad I’m not alone in my organizing ways. 🙂
Hi Nowal, Thanks so much for letting me know. I love to hear stories about good times in the kitchen. And I hear you on the “seasoned foodies.” 🙂 Am loving this sun today. Just about to head out and take a walk in it to pick up my little guy.