Andes Mint Grinch Cookies
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These cookies are the perfect Christmas Cookie! The bright green and minty flavor are a wonderful combination! These Andes Mint Cookies would also be great a for a cookie exchange! Happy Baking!
Andes Mint Grinch Cookies
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup butter (at room temperature)
1 1/2 cup sugar
1 egg
1 tsp mint extract
15-20 drops green food coloring
1 bag of Andes mints (chopped or broken apart)
Directions
Preheat oven 375 degrees. Sift together the flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt and set aside. Unwrap the Andes Mints
In a large bowl, cream together the butter and sugar until smooth. Beat in egg and mint extract. Gradually blend in the dry ingredients and add the green food coloring. Mix until even colored. Last fold in the chopped Andes mints. (I also added some milk chocolate chips… just because I LOVE milk chocolate!)
Put in the refrigerator until the dough is cool.
Roll rounded teaspoonfuls of dough into balls. To make them more rounded when they come out, flatten the balls as you place them onto ungreased cookie sheets.
Bake for 8-10 minutes. Let stand on cookie sheet for 2 minutes before moving them to wire racks to cool.
We watched The Grinch as we ate these cookies! My kids were in their heaven!
This is just the recipe that I was looking for for a special addition for the holidays! Yay!!!
YUM! These look delish! I love baking with the Andes Mint Pieces, but the green food color just makes it that much better, my boys will love these!!
Cannot wait to make these for my Bible study Christmas party on Sunday! They look absolutely delicious and the green food coloring–GENIUS! Merry Christmas to my tummy!!! YUM YUM!
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Oh my goodness! I’m going to need to make these!
Definitely on my To-Do List! Thanks for sharing the recipe! ~tina
Hi, I am going to use this recipe for a cookie exchange…can you tell me how many cookies the recipe yields? Thanks!
About 4 dozen! Thanks for your question!!!
I love Andes Mints!! The only time I ever really have them is that rare occasion we go to Olive Garden and I always ask the waitress to bring extra ;0) This will give me a good excuse to go out and buy a whole bag.
I love the Grinch! I’m doing a grinch-themed Christmas party, too. Perfect!
These are adorable and so festive!! We saw the Grinch today in our Christmas parade!! Thanks for sharing at Foodtastic Friday!
I have been looking for this! All of the other cookies I found use a pre-made mix. Thank you!
I made these yesterday for a neighborhood Christmas party and they were a hit, and my boyfriend requested they be added to the holiday dessert rotation. My grocery store doesn’t carry Andes for some odd reason, so I used Hershey’s dark chocolate mint truffle kisses and they worked wonderfully. Thanks for the great recipe!!
You gals just made my day these look so great, I showed you off tonight!
Carlee
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Oh yum, yum, yum!
Im afraid I don’t have any mint extract..Im still gonna attempt to make these tonight. Wish me luck Thanks you for posting the recipe. Yum
Made these for a Christmas party and they came out beautiful. Going to make again and give as gifts! Thanks for the recipe.
When it says mint extract, would peppermint extract work as a substitute? I’ve been told this is a no no when making brownies or chocolate cookies and to only use peppermint ex. So which one does this recipe call for?
Thanks for the fantastic recipe. Made two adjustments: only used 1/2 cup butter and 1 cup sugar and added 1 egg white-terrifically chewy, perfect cookie!