Chocolate-Mint Cookies
One portion of this dish contains roughly 9g of protein, 26g of fat, and a total of 663 calories. This recipe covers 15% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. This recipe serves 8. If you have firmly brown sugar, cocoa, flour, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes roughly 2 hours.
Instructions
Stir together flour and next 2 ingredients. Beat butter and next 5 ingredients at medium speed with an electric mixer 3 to 4 minutes or until creamy.
Add eggs, and beat until smooth.
Add flour mixture, and beat just until blended.
Divide dough into 2 equal portions. Flatten into disks between parchment paper.
Roll each to 1/4-inch thickness; transfer to a baking sheet, and chill 30 minutes.
Place 1 dough disk on work surface, and remove top sheet of parchment paper.
Cut with a lightly floured 2 1/2-inch round cutter, rerolling scraps once; place 1 inch apart on 2 parchment paper-lined baking sheets.
Sprinkle 1 tsp. crushed peppermint candies onto each cookie. Repeat procedure with remaining dough and candy.
Bake at 350 for 12 minutes or until firm.
Transfer cookies to a wire rack, and cool.
White Chocolate Linzer Cookies: Prepare as directed through Step
Cut centers out of half of cookies with a lightly floured 1 1/2-inch round cutter.
Sprinkle 1 tsp. crushed peppermint candies over each hollow cookie. Proceed with Step
Spread 1 tsp. melted vanilla candy coating onto solid cookies; top with hollow cookies. Makes 2 dozen. Hands-on 45 min.; Total 1 hour, 40 min.