These Andes Mint Grinch Cookies are perfect for Christmas!
It’s a tradition in our family to make these cookies and eat them while we watch “The Grinch” (and drink homemade hot chocolate with them as well!).
What are your favorite holiday traditions? Please feel free to leave a comment below!
Recipe Ingredient Notes
To make Andes Mint Grinch Cookies, you will need the following ingredients:
- all-purpose flour
- baking soda
- baking powder
- salt
- butter (at room temperature)
- sugar
- egg
- milk
- mint extract
- green food coloring
- 1 box Andes mints (with 28 pieces- you can also buy a bag of Andes Mint pieces)
- chocolate chips (if desired – completely optional)
Equipment Needed
For this recipe, you only need a few simple kitchen tools. We recommend using the following equipment:
How to make Andes Mint Grinch Cookies
- Preheat oven 375℉. Unwrap all the Andes Mints and chop up into small pieces. Set aside.
- In a mixing bowl, sift together the flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt and set aside.
- In another mixing bowl, cream together the butter and sugar until smooth. Beat in egg, milk, and mint extract.
- Gradually blend in the dry ingredients and add the green food coloring. Mix until dough is evenly colored.
- Fold in the chopped Andes mints (and chocolate chips if using).
- Put dough in the refrigerator until the dough is cool (about 30-40 minutes)
- Roll rounded teaspoonfuls of dough into balls.
- Bake for 8-10 minutes. Let stand on cookie sheet for 2 minutes before moving them to wire racks to cool.
Storage Suggestions and Tips
If you manage to not eat the whole tray of cookies immediately, these (cookie name) store well. Once cookies have completely cooled, here is how you can store them:
- Counter: Store in an airtight container in a single layer for up to 4 days at room temperature. If you want to try and get the cookies to last even longer without becoming crumbly cookies, add a slice of bread into the container of cookies. The bread will give the cookies something to draw moisture from.
- Refrigerator: Store in an airtight container in a single layer for up to 7 days in a refrigerator.
- Freezer: You can freeze precooked cookie dough for cookies later. Just roll out and freeze for 30 minutes, and then transfer to an airtight, freezer safe bag for up to 3 months. To store cooked cookies, let them cool completely before you put them in a freezer-safe bag for up to 3 months.
Why chill the cookie dough?
The longer you chill the dough, the more flavor will develop (it really helps that mint flavor to come alive!).
The flour will also absorb more of the moisture so the thicker and chewier the final texture will be.
Chilling your dough also helps these cookies not to spread as much while you bake them, so you get a thicker, chewier cookie.
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Andes Mint Grinch Cookies
Ingredients
- 2 ¾ cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 cup butter, (at room temperature)
- 1 ½ cups sugar
- 1 egg
- 3 Tablespoons milk
- 1 teaspoon mint extract, (or peppermint extract – whatever you have available)
- 15-20 drops green food coloring
- 1 box Andes mints, (about 28 pieces; chopped or broken into small pieces)
- ½ cup semi-sweet chocolate chips, (optional)
Instructions
- Preheat oven 375℉. Unwrap all the Andes Mints and chop up into small pieces. Set aside.
- In a mixing bowl, sift together the flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt and set aside.
- In another mixing bowl, cream together the butter and sugar until smooth. Beat in egg, milk, and mint extract.
- Gradually blend in the dry ingredients and add the green food coloring. Mix until dough is evenly colored.
- Fold in the chopped Andes mints (and chocolate chips if using).
- Put dough in the refrigerator until the dough is cool (about 30-40 minutes)
- Roll rounded teaspoonfuls of dough into balls.
- Bake for 8-10 minutes. Let stand on cookie sheet for 2 minutes before moving them to wire racks to cool.
Notes
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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!
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!
About 4 dozen! Thanks for your question!!!
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!
These were delicious. Thanks for the recipe!
Do you think I could use a bag of sugar cookie mix as the base and add the mint extract to it? I am a lazy cookie maker. 😉
Sounds YUMMY! I love mint and chocolate and I love Andes mints! Is there by any chance a low-fat recipe or one with less sugar or a healthy alternative (not splenda or anything with aspartame in it) by any chance? If not I may just make the cookies as you have the recipe! But I am trying to stick to healthier eating so I thought I would ask. I am unable to watch The Grinch on TV but it is on my list of DVDs to buy when I have a DVD player to watch it on! 😉 Thanks so much for sharing the recipe!
Did you use mint extract or peppermint extract? I have read that the two taste different so I am wondering which one I should use.
We used peppermint extract.
We haven’t made these cookies using a cookie mix, so we are not sure how well that would work.
whats the Andes Mints, is it fresh mint???
Andes mints come in a 4.67 ounce box with about 28 mints in the box. You can find them on the candy aisle at the store or during the Holidays they are found by the holiday candy. They are chocolate with a thin green layer in the middle. They have been around for years and years. Hope this helps. 🙂
Just finished making these for the first time. Couldn’t readily find a bag of Andies mints, except for their holiday peppermint bark. So I used an 8oz bag of mint M&M’s. Thwy turned out adorable — extra minty, and the M&M’s were various hues of green. So they’re the perfect substitute for the Andies!
I am going to make these for a cookie swap and have a few questions before I begin. Thanks to other comments they answered some of my questions. The recipe calls for a bag of Andes, I could not find a bag to see what the ounces were to compare with the 4.67 oz. could you help me out.
My daughter and I just made these cookies and they came out awesome! They taste great and look so festive! We actually got 5 dozen out of the recipe.
Betty Crocker has a recipe using the sugar cookie mix – mint chocolate chip cookies. I made them – very good. But I’m glad to have the homemade version – Thanks Six Sisters!!
We used the 8.5 ounce bag of Andes Mints. That is about 48 pieces.
This look wonderful. Mint/chocolate may be my favorite combination of all time. I wonder how it would work out if I incorporated some elements of this recipe into a sugar cookie (the mints, extract, and food coloring) so that I could make cutouts. I’ve been looking online and they have Grinch cookie cutters. Would love to try it. Has anyone else done something like this?
You should probably put peppermint extract in the
Recipe then because it just calls for mint.
Just an FYI. I bought the ingredients to make these yesterday. I originally picked up the box of Andes mints from the candy aisle, but then when I got to the baking section a few aisles down, I found a bag of mint andes baking pieces. It was a 10 ounce bag and was cheaper than the 4.67 ounce box I had found in the candy aisle. I’m assuming they taste exactly the same, and they’re cheaper, plus they’re already chopped so you can skip that step.
I made these as a new addition to my annual bake of cookies. My kids LOVED these. I can’t thank you enough for posting this and sharing with the world. They seem to be a hit at work as well. You rock!!
These Look Delicious! Do they freeze well?
Made these and it made 5 and a half dozen
Once these are done should they be a chewy type cookie or a little crispy around the edges?
I had to add water and next time I will add milk for the dough was a little dry. Otherwise awesome recipe!
A little of both! 🙂
They freeze great!
I had the same problem, the dough was very dry!
Not sure if it needs another egg or something else?
They look and sound great, but it was curious as to why they rate only a 2/5 rating based on 102 reviews.
SAME problem – so dry it won’t even stay in a ball. Added another egg – crossing fingers it still turns out.
This is awesome.. you gals did a fabulous work. Nice recipe.
Felicity
Dough was really dry and crumbly! I ended up just throwing it out because I couldn’t save it even though I added water. =(
I had the same problem. I added an extra egg even. I wondered if I read the recipe wrong but I double checked and I didn’t. Wonder what happened?
These cookies have it all! Sugar cookie texture, mint and chocolate flavor, festive holiday color. So happy I found this recipe. My one suggestion is to watch the timing very closely. For me 9 mi utes got a perfect color, still chewy in the center. By 10 minutes the outsides got brown. Not terrible looking, but not as perfectly grinchy.
I wanted to make these but wanted to know mint or peppermint extract?
This recipe was amazing!!!! They don’t last long cuz my family loves them! This is the second year we made them and they are now a Christmas staple for us!
My son and daughter loved these cookies so much! My son did a review of your cookies on his YouTube channel, Leo’s Adventures. Hope you enjoy!!
https://youtu.be/iaFDj9ZAxRc
That is the cutest video. Leo and Livvy. Thanks Leo for making our cookies!
We have used both. So whatever you have on hand. Andes mints are a green mint – Creme de Menthe
I have been using this receipe for about 7 years. Grinchmas started with my first grandson. A picture with grinch, these cookies and the cartoon. It has been going on every year and now includes my two other grandsons, with my son in law being the grinch this year and now we watch the movies. Your receipe has been a part of it every year. I mix the dough, split it in thirds and each child adds in the food color, chips and mints to their liking and no child shares their cookies with their brothers. Lol. Thank you for helping us make this memory.
This is such a cute idea with your grandsons. I love that you all it Grinchmas and that they each get their own chunk of cookie dough all to themselves!!
We’ve been making this recipe since my oldest was 2yrs old, she’s now 10 and always requests grinch cookies for Santa. We love this recipe!
Can I drop them by Tablespoon instead? If so, what would the cooking time be? Are the teaspoon sized drops big enough? Thank you 😊
You can make the cookies bigger, you’ll have to watch them closely for the cooking time.
I personally thought these cookies tasted exactly like toothpaste. And so did my whole family. I think this would have been much better without any mint extract or at least half of what it calls for. Not my favorite.
I make these cookies every year for the teachers at my son’s school and is always a hit. I always enjoy making them for the family too.