Chocolate Mint Cookies

Chef #1345159's Note:

made with Andes Creme de Menthe mints! They're a treat that can be made anytime, but in my house they're most popular around Christmas and super easy to make!

• Total Time: 1 hrs 27 mins
• Prep Time: 1 hrs 15 mins
• Cook Time: 12 mins

Ingredients:

Serves: 72

Yield: 72.0 cookies

• 1 ½ cups packed brown sugar
• ¾ cup butter
• 2 tablespoons water
• 2 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips
• 2 eggs
• 56 Andes mints candies (2 boxes)
• 2 ½ cups flour
• 1 ¼ teaspoons baking soda

Directions:

1. Mix in a sauce pan -- brown sugar, butter & water until melted, add chocolate chips and melt.
2. Once melted, remove from heat & cool in a mixing bowl (about 10 min.).
3. Beat eggs, 1 at a time, into mixture.
4. Separately, mix together flour & baking soda.
5. Gradually add the dry ingredients to melted mixture.
6. Cover & chill for 1 hour.
7. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
8. Shape dough into balls, bake on tinfoiled pan/parchment paper for 12-13 minutes or until they look puffy and cracked.
9. Immediately put 1/2 one Andes mint on top of cooked cookie, before it has totally cooled.
10. Once the mint melts, swirl around on cookie.