After Dinner Mint Cookies
When it's the holidays, there's always something special about the cookies! These after dinner mint cookies are ones that our family made each Christmas and loved! With a bit of sugar around the edges and a mint melted in the middle, they're a unique recipe that will soon be your favorite as well!
Servings 48 cookies
Calories 145kcal
Ingredients
- ¾ cup butter
- 1 ½ cups brown sugar
- 12 oz semi-sweet chocolate
- 1 tsp espresso powder
- 2 eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 ¼ tsp baking soda
- 2 ½ cups flour
- 1 tsp salt
- ½ cup white granulated sugar (for rolling the cookies)
- 9.5 oz after dinner thin mints mints opened and cut in half
Instructions
- In the microwave, melt the butter, brown sugar, and chocolate. Melt by heating in 30-second increments, stirring in between each heating, until the mixture is dissolved. Let cool slightly.
- Add espresso powder and beat in eggs one at a time until incorporated.
- Mix in vanilla, baking soda, salt, and flour.
- Mix until no streaks of flour remain. If the dough is too soft to handle, chill slightly before making balls.
- Using a tablespoon-sized scoop, make cookie balls. Roll into a ball then roll in sugar and place on parchment-lined baking sheets.
- Bake in a preheated 350°F oven for 8-12 minutes. The cookies are done when just set around the edge and puffed in the middle.
- Remove from the oven and immediately press half a mint in the center of the cookie. Let the mints soften and melt. Then, using the back of a spoon, swirl the mint in a circle.
- Let cookies cool on a cooling rack until the mint center has hardened.
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Nutrition
Serving: 1cookie | Calories: 145kcal | Carbohydrates: 21g | Protein: 1.8g | Fat: 6.5g | Saturated Fat: 3.9g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.2g | Monounsaturated Fat: 1.2g | Trans Fat: 0g | Cholesterol: 16.4mg | Sodium: 90.2mg | Potassium: 37mg | Fiber: 0.8g | Sugar: 15.1g | Vitamin A: 30.2IU | Vitamin C: 0mg | Calcium: 17mg | Iron: 0.5mg