Our Elves paid us a visit last night and dropped a big hint. Clearly they wanted us to make cookies! Imagine their surprise climbing in to find an empty cookie jar. Shame on me! It’s December, that thing should be filled to the max!
We all like mint so we quickly grabbed our aprons and went to work making these mint chocolate chip cookies. Super soft, fluffy and just the right hint of mint. I used some peppermint extract and mint flavored chips and added a few drops of green food coloring. It’s up to you how green they turn out.
This recipe makes 24 cookies. A dozen to keep and a dozen to give away. Tis the season!
Mint chocolate chip cookies
Ingredients
- ½ cup butter, softed
- ¾ cup sugar
- 1 egg
- ¾ tsp peppermint extract
- 3-4 drops green food coloring
- 1½ cups flour
- ½ tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp cream of tarter
- ¼ tsp salt
- 1 cup mint chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees
- Cream the butter and sugar.
- Add the egg, extract and food coloring and mix until the color is fully combined.
- Add the flour, baking soda, baking powder, cream of tarter and salt.
- Once fully combined, fold in the chocolate chips.
- Roll into small balls and place on a cookie sheet.
- Bake the cookies for 10 minutes. Let the cookies cool for 2 minutes before transferring to a cooling rack.
I love the idea of green cookies for Christmas!
Old Fat Guy
These are so cute! Definitely going to add these to my to-make list for next week 🙂 Happy Christmas!
So cute! I think these would make a lovely addition to a holiday cookie tray.
I am SO craving a couple of these cookies to devour right now.. you can never go wrong with the classic combination of chocolate and mint!
Green cookies!!! Super cute!
Hi Angie! 🙂 I’m making this tomorrow for my family. They love mint and I’m sure they will love this! I can’t find cream of tarter though. Is there any subsitute for it? I hope you can answer me.
Hi! The cream of tarter just acts as an extra leavening agent in cookies. Since there is baking powder already in the cookies you can leave it out.
5 days later, I replied. Hehe. Anyway, everybody loved your recipe! And I love it to bits! You’re a cookie genius.
I’m so happy you let me know! You made my day 🙂
Just made these cookies and they came out GREAT!! Just like the picture, so light and fluffy with the perfect touch of mint 🙂 I even subbed for GF flour (without xanthan gum)….Awesome recipe!
I’ll have to make them with GF flour for my cousin. Thanks for letting me know!
This is one of the most delicious cookies I have ever tasted. Seriously! I love how soft and fluffy they are. I made the balls of dough smaller and got 5 dozen cookies! I made them to put into Christmas treat boxes that I mail to my children. The cookies never got that far because we test tasted them a lot. The second batch is baking now. Thanks for this incredible recipe!
Thanks Lisa!! Darn taste testing lol!
I’m not sure what is going on, I made these twice (back to back) and they both came out very flat and crispy. The only thing I can think of is that I shouldn’t use the mixer when adding the egg but mix it in by hand. Any input would be great I’ve never had flat cookies before.
That’s too bad! I did a quick google search and one possibility is too soft or warm butter?