Best Chocolate Mint Surprise Christmas Cookies Recipes
MINT SURPRISE COOKIES
This cookie is a Christmas tradition started by my grandmother. She used to always mail them along with her "Minnesota Bars" (#162331). I have a note on the recipe card that it was originally a winner in Pillsbury's 1st Grand National by Miss Laura Rott of Naperville, Illinois. (One bite and you'll know why it won.) The original recipe called for one package of Rockwood Chocolate Mint Wafers. I've never been able to find them in the store so I use Andes Mint Baking Pieces. I'm sure you could also melt regular chocolate chips and add a little mint flavoring as well. I posted the "refrigerator cookie" method because I think it's easier. You can also chill dough for just two hours, then enclose chocolate in 1 tbsp. of dough. Bake according to directions. COOKING TIME INCLUDES FOUR HOURS OF CHILLING.
Provided by Julie
Categories Dessert
Time 4h25m
Yield 24 Cookies, 12 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 11
Steps:
- Sift flour, soda, and salt.
- Cream butter and sugar well.
- Add eggs, water, and vanilla.
- Blend in dry ingredients gradually; mix thoroughly.
- Shape dough into rolls 1 1/2 inches in diameter. Wrap in wax paper. Chill at least four hours.
- Meanwhile, melt chocolate and cut into small, round wafers (the shape isn't so important -- just enough to fill the center of the cookie).
- Cut dough in slices 1/8" thick. Place on cookie sheet. Top one slice of dough with chocolate wafer. Cover with second slice and seal edges.
- Top with walnut half.
- Bake at 375 for 10-12 minutes.
STARLIGHT MINT SURPRISE
Steps:
- Sift together the flour, baking soda, and salt
- Cream together the butter, brown sugar, and granulated sugar
- Add the eggs and beat until fluffy
- Add the vanilla and mix well
- Fold in the sifted flour mixture
- Stir in the mint chocolate chips
- Place on ungreased cookie sheet 2" apart
- Top with walnut halves
STARLIGHT MINT SURPRISE COOKIES
These cookies won $10,000 for Miss Laura Rott from Naperville, Illinois in a long ago Pillsbury Baking Contest. I can remember my mother making them for us and how good they were. I still have the original recipe that my mother used and since the paper is becoming a little brittle, I'm going to copy it here so I won't damage the original.
Provided by Irish Rose
Categories Dessert
Time 25m
Yield 4 1/2 dozen, 12 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 12
Steps:
- Sift together the flour, baking soda and salt and set aside.
- Cream together the butter and Crisco.
- Add sugars and mix well. Add unbeaten eggs, water and vanilla and mix well.
- Blend in the dry ingredients and mix well.
- Chill dough.
- Open and unwrap the chocolate mint wafers (Eight O'Clock or Andres)
- Enclose each wafer in about 1 Tablespoon of dough and top each cookie with a walnut half.
- Place on ungreased baking sheet about 2 inches apart.
- Bake in moderate oven (recipe says 375°)for 10-12 minutes. You might consider a moderate oven to be 350°.
SURPRISE PACKAGE COOKIES
"Each of these buttery cookies has a chocolate mint candy inside," says Lorraine Meyer of Bend, Oregon. "They're my very favorite cookie and are always part of our Christmas cookie trays."
Provided by Taste of Home
Categories Desserts
Time 40m
Yield about 3 1/2 dozen.
Number Of Ingredients 9
Steps:
- Cream butter and sugars until light and fluffy. Beat in vanilla and eggs, one at a time. In another bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder and salt; gradually beat into creamed mixture. Refrigerate, covered, until dough is firm enough to shape, about 2 hours. , Preheat oven to 375°. With floured hands, wrap tablespoonfuls of dough around mints (about 42) to form rectangular cookies, covering completely with dough. Place 2 in. apart on greased baking sheets., Bake until edges are golden brown, 10-12 minutes. Remove from pans to wire racks; cool completely., In a microwave or saucepan, melt remaining mints; drizzle over cookies.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 124 calories, Fat 6g fat (4g saturated fat), Cholesterol 18mg cholesterol, Sodium 71mg sodium, Carbohydrate 16g carbohydrate (10g sugars, Fiber 0 fiber), Protein 1g protein.
CHOCOLATE MINT SURPRISE CHRISTMAS COOKIES
These look great for christmas treats for kids to leave for Santa and they will have a blast making for him! I know that my kids don't care for the normal peppermint candy canes yet, so you can probably omit those and add more of the mini chocolate chips instead! I also found them to be egg free, which should be great for those allergic or don't care for them and they still worked out great! As for the amount of Hershey kisses to use, I am not sure on the size of bags they come in, so I am guessing on the amount for the ingredients. You can probably add more or less to suit for the recipe. Enjoy!
Provided by LDSMom128
Categories Dessert
Time 2h30m
Yield 3 dozen, 36 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 13
Steps:
- Using a medium sized ziploc bag, crush the candy canes in little pieces. Cut the hershey kisses in half. I found that a whole hershey kiss was too much for the cookies, but a half one is perfect!
- Heat your oven to 375.
- Add the butter to a stand or hand-held mixer and mix well until smooth. Add the sugars and mix well. Add the almond and vanilla extract and mix well. Add the flour and mix very well on low speed until well mixed.
- With a wooden spoon mix in the crushed candy canes and the mini chocolate chips well.
- Scoop out a teaspoon of dough and add one half of a hershey kiss. Roll up the dough in a ball to keep the kiss inside! Place the dough balls on a parchment covered cookie pan and bake for 10-12 minutes and golden. Allow them to cool for about 2 minutes before removing from the pan and allow to cool. I have found having a sheet of tin foil on your table or counter works great in cooling cookies!
- In a medium sauce pan, add the white chocolate chips and the 6 tablespoons of shortening. Melt slowly on medium/low heat as not to burn the chocolate.
- Divide the melted chocolate into 3 cups. In the first two cups, add a bit of green and a bit red food coloring seperately to the shades that you like. Using a fork, drizzle the colored chocolate over the cookies to decorate. The kids will love this part! Enjoy!
Nutrition Facts : Calories 153.5, Fat 9.6, SaturatedFat 5.7, Cholesterol 14.6, Sodium 44.2, Carbohydrate 16.4, Fiber 0.5, Sugar 10.7, Protein 1.4
STARLIGHT MINT SURPRISE COOKIES
A really good sugar cookie with a mint surprise! My Mom would make these for special occasions. I also remember feeling special when sharing these when she had her afternoon tea...they are really yummy! )Time est. does not include the dough chilling)
Provided by LiisaN
Categories Dessert
Time 24m
Yield 4 1/2 dozen
Number Of Ingredients 10
Steps:
- Sift together the flour,baking soda and salt.
- Cream the butter, sugars.
- Add the eggs, vanilla- beat well.
- Blend in the dry ingredients.
- Cover and chill at least two hours or overnight.
- Take a tablespoon size amount of dough and enclose/conceal mint in dough.
- Place on ungreased baking sheet.
- Place walnut half on top.
- Bake at 375° for 9-12 minutes.
HIDDEN CHOCOLATE MINT COOKIES
These cookies contain a surprise of a chocolate mint inside. Fun to make and eat. A wonderful after-dinner cookie.
Provided by Trisha W
Categories Dessert
Time 33m
Yield 24 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 12
Steps:
- Mix the shortening, sugars and egg.
- Stir in water and vanilla.
- Stir together the dry ingredients then mix into the batter.
- Chill the dough.
- Enclose each wafer into about 1 tablespoon of dough.
- Place each on a greased baking sheet and bake in a 400 degree oven for 8-10 minutes, or until no imprint remains when touched lightly.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 94.7, Fat 4.3, SaturatedFat 1.8, Cholesterol 13.9, Sodium 68.1, Carbohydrate 12.9, Fiber 0.2, Sugar 6.4, Protein 1.2
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