If you love this flavor combination, be sure to try my Fudgy Frosted Chocolate Mint Brownies, easy classic Homemade Peppermint Bark, or make a Grasshopper Ice Cream Pie! When I was a kid, I loved Andes mints so much that I started getting packages of them in my Christmas stocking each year. The combination of mint and chocolate has always been one of my favorites. I like it even more than peanut butter and chocolate, which is saying something. Enjoying a chocolate Andes Mint cookie with a warm mug of hot cocoa is possibly one of the best ways to relax at home this winter. One of my college roommates, Cori, shared this recipe with me more years ago than I care to admit. It’s been a favorite ever since. I remember taking the handwritten recipe card home with me (that’s how we did it in the old days) and making these for my family over winter break and everybody raved about them. The base of the cookie is a rich, soft chocolate cookie, but it’s pretty different from some of my other favorite chocolate cookie doughs like my Chewy Chocolate Brownie Cookies or Double Chocolate Crinkle Cookies. Instead of being made with cocoa powder, you make the cookie dough by melting butter, brown sugar, and water, then adding chocolate chips and heating and stirring until they are melted as well. That mixture gets to cool a bit before adding the other staple cookie ingredients of flour, eggs, salt, and a little baking soda. We use brown sugar in these cookies because adds a deeper, more complex flavor to the chocolate (and also that’s the way my roommate taught me to do it). Then the dough needs to chill in the fridge for a bit so it’s easy to scoop and roll into balls. After baking, each cookie gets topped with an Andes mint while the cookie is still hot. The residual heat is enough to melt the candy, then you just spread it around to create a minty-chocolatey coating on each cookie that will re-harden after about an hour or so. I feel the need to warn you about the addictive properties of these devastatingly yummy and subversively demure little chocolate Andes mint cookies. They are soft with a chocolate shell coating that not only adds a wonderful mint flavor, but also an interesting texture. And the cookies are small enough that you can easily start with 2 or 3 and before you know it your reaching for your 4th or 5th trying to stop yourself but completely unable to. It’s not just me. I’ve seen my husband, who professes to not be a big fan of the mint-chocolate combo, get drawn into the relentless pull of these chocolate Andes mint cookies every time I make them. They are irresistible with a glass of milk. These make a fantastic holiday cookie for Christmas or even as a non-traditional St. Patrick’s Day option, but honestly, we make them year-round because they are good anytime!
How to Make Andes Mint Cookies
Can you freeze Andes Mint cookies?
Yes, you can freeze these chocolate Andes mint cookies. After they have completely cooled and set up, the chocolate hardens enough that you can set them on top of each other in an airtight container and freeze for up to a few weeks. By doing this you can allow yourself a nicely portioned treat after every meal without fear of eating an entire batch in one sitting. The cookies are good enough that you may want to use these added cautions to prevent yourself from eating too many at once. But then again, what is too many? Another reason to freeze these cookies is that cold chocolate-mint desserts are absolutely the best. Does anybody else stick Girl Scout Thin Mint cookies in the freezer to eat them cold or is it just me? If you happen to live somewhere where you cannot buy Andes mints, you could always try making your own homemade Andes mints! My mother-in-law made homemade Andes mints one year and I was super impressed but have never tried it myself.
Other Chocolate Loving Recipes You’ll Enjoy!
Soft and Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies German Chocolate Cake Pecan Chocolate Chip Cookies One Bowl Chocolate Cake Recipe Raspberry Chocolate Chunk Cookies Chocolate Peanut Butter No Bake Cookies White Chocolate Raspberry Truffle Ice Cream Chocolate Lofthouse Frosted Sugar Cookies
Easy Chocolate Turtle Brownies
Jacques Torres Chocolate Chip Cookies
Chocolate Nutella Sandwich Cookies
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