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Mini Chip Peppermint Crisps, OH MY

December 4, 2008 By Laura 10 Comments

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These are my first huge discovery of the Christmas cookie baking season. Every year I make an effort to try some new recipes, create some new traditions. Some of the really successful cookies of past Christmases (that are not family recipes) include Gale Gand’s Hungarian Shortbread, Carole Walter’s Scottish Shortbread, and a recipe found on the Cooking Light Bulletin Board (CLBB) for Mocha Truffle cookies, which were so successful I now make them year round, forget about this holiday only stuff (apparently I have not shared them yet though–I will have to remedy that).

I recently posted on the CLBB asking if anyone had made Sunset’s Mint Chippers, a cookie recipe which had intrigued me. In that thread, a fellow BB’er posted the recipe for these cookies, saying he sometimes used mint chips. I decided to try his recipe first instead, only I added peppermint extract to the actual cookie dough.

Not the prettiest cookie, these cookies are kind of like a peppermint chocolate shortbread (are you noticing a Holiday shortbread theme for me?), crumbly and sandy and cool with mint. They actually remind me somewhat of Girl Scout Thin Mints, which I am hesitant to say because I would not want anyone disappointed in them.

These are so good it is hard to say whether I will be inspired to try the other recipe. Andy, the BB’er who posted the recipe, prefers these cookies truly golden and crispy-crunchy. I made them that way and a little less baked. I preferred them less baked, I think because while the buttery flavor was more pronounced the way he made them, the peppermint flavor was less pronounced, which I did not like, and I liked the crumbly sandy texture of the less cooked cookie, as opposed to the crispy- crunchy.

I am submitting these to Food Blogga‘s Eat Christmas Cookies Season 2 blogging event. I hope you guys have been over to the on-going round-up page to check out all of the amazing cookies being baked this year for the Holidays.


Mini Chip Peppermint Crisps
Adapted from CLBB, originally from the Ontario Milk Marketing Board

2 1/4 cups AP flour
1 t kosher salt
1 1/4 cups (2 1/2 sticks) unsalted butter, softened
1 cup confectioners’ sugar, sifted
1 t vanilla
1 1/2 t peppermint extract
3/4 cup mini chocolate chips
3/4 cup Andes thin mint baking chips (if you only have mini chips, try increasing the peppermint extract)

Preheat the oven to 325 F. Line a baking sheet with parchment or silicone.

Whisk together flour and salt. Cream butter; gradually beat in sugar, peppermint and vanilla. Add the flour mixture to the creamed butter mixture, in 2 parts. Stir until smoothly combined. Stir in chocolate chips.

Form dough into 1-inch balls. Place on cookie sheet; flatten to rounds approximately 2 inches in diameter with the bottom of a glass dipped in flour or icing sugar. Bake in the oven 10 or 11 minutes, rotating from front to back halfway through, just until one or two cookies start to show a little browning at the edges. Cool on pan for 5 minutes and then transfer to a cooling rack.

Filed Under: chocolate, chocolate chip cookies, cookies, Holiday and Christmas Cookies, mint chocolate

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Comments

  1. HoneyB says

    December 5, 2008 at 3:57 am

    I think I would probably love these! I love mint and shortbread cookies. Another idea with these would to be not put the chocolate chips in but to instead melt chocolate and dip them in it. YUMMY!

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  2. Robyn says

    December 5, 2008 at 10:46 am

    Any idea how many cookies you got out of the recipe?

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  3. Laura says

    December 5, 2008 at 11:01 am

    The recipe claimed 6 dozen but I got closer to 4 dozen. And I used a 1 inch cookie scoop so I don’t think they were too big–plus I used a silicone pad that had inch increments marked on it so I know I only spread them to 2 inches.

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  4. noble pig says

    December 5, 2008 at 8:03 pm

    They are cute and yummy sounding. Cookies like this never make it to the platters, I just scarf them down!

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  5. Susan from Food Blogga says

    December 6, 2008 at 7:48 am

    I don’t think I’ve ever seen Andes’ thin mint chips. I’ll be looking for them now though. Thanks Laura! These are wonderful!

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  6. RecipeGirl says

    December 6, 2008 at 6:28 pm

    I see you’ve been busy baking too! These look delicious. I love those Andes Mints just a little too much.

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  7. That Girl says

    December 8, 2008 at 7:47 pm

    I think my husband would love these!

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  8. Christie Stump says

    December 9, 2008 at 9:32 am

    These look and sound amazing! Can’t wait to try them!!

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  9. Anonymous says

    December 13, 2008 at 10:50 pm

    I just made these tonight and they are absolutely divine! I couldn’t find the Andes baking chips, so I just chopped up the regualar Andes mints. I had to stop myself from eating more than 2 — or there won’t be any left for my cookie plates. Thanks for sharing!
    Michelle

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  10. Natalie T. says

    December 22, 2013 at 10:47 am

    I made these last night — wonderful! The Andes chips I found were red and white so they made the cookies look a little more festive (Yes, I know I am 5 years behind 😛 )

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Hi! I’m Laura and I am a recovering history major who has re-channeled all of my passion for learning about the history of different countries to learning about their food culture. That doesn’t mean every dish on here is strictly authentic, but it does mean that even my adaptations are not undertaken lightly. My goal is to show you–by doing–that these dishes are possible in your kitchen. Including desserts because I have quite the sweet tooth! Read More…

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