Chocolate Mint Cookies

Submitted by KitchenKelly

"Delicious cookies for those girl guide cookie lovers!"

 

• Ready In: 42mins
• Ingredients: 12
• Yields: 24 cookies
• Serves: 24

ingredients

• 3⁄4 cup butter, room temperature
• 1 cup icing sugar
• 6 tablespoons cocoa powder
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 egg yolk
• 1 tablespoon milk
• 1 1⁄2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1⁄8 teaspoon salt
• 1⁄8 teaspoon baking powder

• For Filling

• 1 egg white
• 1 3⁄4 cups icing sugar, sifted
• 2 -3 drops peppermint extract

directions

1. Beat butter until smooth and fluffy.
2. Sift together icing sugar and cocoa powder over butter and beat in.
3. Stir in vanilla, egg yolk (be sure to reserve egg white for filling), and milk.
4. Add flour, salt and baking powder to cocoa mixture and blend until incorporated.
5. Shape dough into a disc, wrap and chill for 20 minutes.
6. Preheat oven to 325.
7. On a surface lightly dusted with icing sugar, roll out the dough to 1/8 inch thick.
8. Cut dough into 1 1/2 inch circles and transfer carefully to a parchment lined baking sheet.
9. Bake 12-15 minutes until cookies can be lifted away from parchment easily.
10. Allow to cool on baking sheet
11. For Filling;.
12. put egg white in a bowl and beat in icing sugar a few tablespoons at a time until a soft dough forms.
13. Turn dough out onto a surfact dusted with icing sugar. Knead in remaining icing sugar and peppermint extract until dough is no longer sticky.
14. To fill cookieds, roll a teaspoon of dough into a ball and flatted a little.
15. Sandwich between 2 cookies and push icing to edges.