After Dinner Mint Cookies Recipe
- 3/4 c. Butter or possibly margarine
- 1 c. Sugar
- 1 tsp Baking pwdr
- 1 x Egg
- 1/4 tsp Mint extract Few drops green food coloring
- 2 1/4 c. All-purpose flour
- 1/2 c. Chocolate sandwich cookies with white fill, finely minced
- 1/2 c. Semisweet chocolate chips, optional
- 1 tsp Shortening, optional
- Beat butter or possibly maragrine in a large mixing bowl with an electric mixer on medium to high speed for 30 seconds.
- Add in sugar and baking pwdr and beat until combined.
- Beat in egg, mint extraxt, and sufficient food coloring to tint light to medium green.
- Beat in as much of the flour as you can with the mixer.
- Stir in any remaining flour with a wooden spoon.
- Divide dough in half.
- Cover and refrigerateabout 1 hour or possibly until easy to handle.
- Roll one half of dough between two sheets of waxed paper into an 8x7 inch rectangle.
- Peel off top sheet of waxed paper.
- Sprinkle half of crushed cookies proportionately over dough to within 1/4 inch of allsides.
- Roll up, jelly-roll style, starting from one short side, removing bottom sheet of waxed paper as you roll.
- Healthy pinch to seael.
- Repeat with remaining dough and crushed cookies.
- wrap rolls in waxed paper or possibly clear plastic wrap.
- Refrigerateabout 4 hrs or possibly till hard.
- Remove one roll of dough from the refrigerator.
- Unwrap and reshape slightly if necessary.
- Cut dough into 1/4-inch slices.
- Place 2 inches apart on an ungreased cookie sheet.
- Bake in 375 degree oven for 8 to 9 min or possibly until edges are hard.
- Cold on cookie sheet for 1 minute.
- Remove and cold completely on a wire rack.
- Repeat with remaining roll of dough.
- If you like, heat together in a saucepan, the chocolate and shortening over low heat.
- Drizzle over cookies.
- HINT: When dough has been rolled, refrigerateupright in a glass to avoid a long flat bottom.
- HINT: To drizzle chocolate: Put in a small plastic bag and make a SMALL cut in one of the bottom corners of the bag.
- Use like a pastry bag.
butter, sugar, baking pwdr, egg, few drops, allpurpose, chocolate sandwich cookies, chocolate chips, shortening
Taken from cookeatshare.com/recipes/after-dinner-mint-cookies-62642 (may not work)