Chocolate Mint Cookies

We had a Progress dinner a couple weekends ago with three sets of our neighbors.

This is an idea I came up with after seeing it on Top Chef  and after a sucessful one last year, 

I wanted to do another one this year.  

This year we had three houses...

Appetizer

Main Course

Dessert. 

I jumped at the chance to do desserts since I had a number of recipes I wanted to try...

We ended up doing three small desserts and over the next couple of blogs I will give the recipes for all of them.

First up: 

Chocolate Mint Cookies

I stole this recipe from Allrecipe.com

I chose it because it has over 600 good reviews...

Ingredients:

3/4 cup butter 

1 1/2 cups packed brown sugar 

2 tablespoons water

 2 cups semisweet chocolate chips

2 eggs

2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour 

1 1/4 teaspoons baking soda

1/2 teaspoon salt

36 chocolate mint wafer candies (I used Andes Mints)

Directions: 

Step 1: 

In a large pan over low heat, cook butter, sugar and water until butter is melted. Add chocolate chips and stir until partially melted. Remove from heat and continue to stir until chocolate is completely melted. Pour into a large bowl and let stand 10 minutes to cool off slightly. 

Step 2:

At high speed, beat in eggs, one at a time into chocolate mixture. Reduce speed to low and add dry ingredients, beating until blended. Chill dough about 1 hour

Step 3:

 Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). 

Step 4;

Roll dough into balls and place on ungreased cookie sheet about 2 inches apart. Bake 8-10 minutes. While cookies are baking unwrap mints and divide each in half. When cookies are brought out of the oven, put 1/2 mint on top of each cookie. Let the mint sit for up to 5 minutes until melted, then spread the mint on top of the cookie.  Eat and enjoy! 

I made them Friday night and we served them Saturday.

Most excellent.  This is a recipe I will be using again!
It is just thr right amount of mint on a chocolate cookie
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