Do you like chocolate and mint?

Do you like them together?

There is only one person in our house that likes chocolate and mint together and that's yours truly. I made this recipe for a gathering the other night and they are wonderful! The recipe follows and comes from here...



Chocolate Mint Candy Cookies

3/4 cup butter
1 1/2 cups brown sugar
2 Tbsp. water
2 cups semisweet chocolate chips
2 eggs
2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 1/4 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. salt
3 (4.5 oz.) packages chocolate covered thin mints

Directions:

1. In a saucepan over medium heat, cook the sugar, butter and water, stirring occasionally until melted. Remove from heat, stir in the chocolate chips until melted and set aside to cool for 10 minutes.

2. Pour the chocolate mixture into a large bowl, and beat in the eggs, one at a time. Combine the flour, baking soda and salt, stir into the chocolate mixture. Cover and refrigerate dough for at least 1 hour.

3. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease cookie sheets. Roll cookie dough into walnut sized balls and place 2 inches apart onto the prepared cookie sheets.

4. Bake for 8 to 10 minutes* in the preheated oven, be careful not to over bake. When cookies come out of the oven, press one mint wafer into the top of each cookie and let sit for 1 minute. When the mint is softened, swirl with the back of a spoon or toothpick to make a pattern with the green filling of the mint wafer. For smaller cookies, break mints in half.


* I used a large cookie scoop and needed to bake them over 13 minutes. I also used parchment paper instead of greasing my cookie sheets.

P.S. I'll bring them to to family reunion at the end of June. Yum!