Chocolate-Mint Snow-top Cookies

Chocolate-Mint Snow-top Cookies

1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
1 1/2 cups semisweet chocolate pieces
6 Tbsp butter, softened
1 cup granulated sugar
2 eggs
1 1/2 tsp vanilla
1/4 tsp mint flavoring
Powdered sugar

1. In a medium bowl stir together flour, baking powder, and salt; set aside. In a small saucepan heat and stir 1 cup of the chocolate pieces over low heat until smooth; set aside.
2. In a large mixing bowl beat butter with an electric mixer on medium to high speed for 30 seconds. Add granulated sugar. Beat until combined, scraping sides of bowl occasionally. Beat in melted chocolate, the eggs, vanilla, and mint flavoring. Beat in flour mixture. Stir in the remaining 1/2 cup chocolate pieces. Cover and chill dough in freezer about 30 minutes or until easy to handle.
3. Preheat oven to 350º. Shape dough into 1-inch balls. Roll balls in powdered sugar to coat. Place balls 2 inches apart on an ungreased cookie sheet. Bake for 10 to 12 minutes or until tops are crackled. Let stand for 2 minutes on cookie sheet. Transfer to a wire rack and let cool.

Makes 42 cookies.

The ingredients (minus the vanilla which I forgot to set out for the picture):


I love melting chocolate. I think it's the smell. It might be the consistency of smooth, melted chocolate. Any recipe that involves stiring chocolate pieces around in a hot pot gets an A+ from me.

Mmmm... melted chocolate.

Here is the creamed sugar; it looks so nice and fluffy.

And here is the sugar with the melted chocolate mixed in.

This is the finished dough. It has a subtle smell of mint.

The dough had to freeze for a little bit to make workable. The recipe touts 30 minutes but I'm sure you could leave it in there for a little longer.

The cookies are all covered in powdered sugar and ready to go in the oven.

The first batch of cookies came out a little light on powdered sugar. Apparently the sugar bakes off a little. On the subsequent batches I put a heavier coating of powdered sugar and they came out looking much better.

The finished product: these cookies were pretty good. These were moist and pleasingly chewy. I always like the combination of mint and chocolate and this pairs the two flavors nicely without one overpowering the other. These look great and taste good. I'll make this again, maybe around Christmas with a nice cup of cocoa. Mmmm.