Chocolate Mint Surprise Christmas Cookies Recipes

Steps:

• In a large pan over low heat, cook butter, sugar and water until butter is melted. Add chocolate chips and stir until partially melted. Remove from heat and continue to stir until chocolate is completely melted. Pour into a large bowl and let stand 10 minutes to cool off slightly.
• At high speed, beat in eggs, one at a time into chocolate mixture. Reduce speed to low and add dry ingredients, beating until blended. Chill dough about 1 hour.
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Roll dough into balls and place on ungreased cookie sheet about 2 inches apart. Bake 8-10 minutes. While cookies are baking unwrap mints and divide each in half. When cookies are brought out of the oven, put 1/2 mint on top of each cookie. Let the mint sit for up to 5 minutes until melted, then spread the mint on top of the cookie. Eat and enjoy!

Steps:

• Using a medium sized ziploc bag, crush the candy canes in little pieces. Cut the hershey kisses in half. I found that a whole hershey kiss was too much for the cookies, but a half one is perfect!
• Heat your oven to 375.
• Add the butter to a stand or hand-held mixer and mix well until smooth. Add the sugars and mix well. Add the almond and vanilla extract and mix well. Add the flour and mix very well on low speed until well mixed.
• With a wooden spoon mix in the crushed candy canes and the mini chocolate chips well.
• Scoop out a teaspoon of dough and add one half of a hershey kiss. Roll up the dough in a ball to keep the kiss inside! Place the dough balls on a parchment covered cookie pan and bake for 10-12 minutes and golden. Allow them to cool for about 2 minutes before removing from the pan and allow to cool. I have found having a sheet of tin foil on your table or counter works great in cooling cookies!
• In a medium sauce pan, add the white chocolate chips and the 6 tablespoons of shortening. Melt slowly on medium/low heat as not to burn the chocolate.
• Divide the melted chocolate into 3 cups. In the first two cups, add a bit of green and a bit red food coloring seperately to the shades that you like. Using a fork, drizzle the colored chocolate over the cookies to decorate. The kids will love this part! Enjoy!

Steps:

• In a large bowl, cream butter, cream cheese and sugars until light and fluffy, 5-7 minutes. Beat in eggs, milk and vanilla. In another bowl, whisk flour, baking soda and salt; gradually beat into butter mixture., Divide dough in half; shape each into a disk. Wrap in waxed paper and refrigerate 30 minutes or until firm enough to roll., Preheat oven to 400°. On a lightly floured surface, roll each portion of dough to 1/4-in. thickness. Cut with a floured 3-in. round cookie cutter. Place a mint patty in center of each circle; fold dough over patty. Pinch to seal seams. Place on greased baking sheets, seam side down., Bake 8-10 minutes or until cookies are golden brown. Remove from pans to wire racks to cool completely., In a microwave, melt chocolate chips and shortening; stir until smooth. Drizzle over cookies. Refrigerate until set. Store in an airtight container in the refrigerator., Freeze option: Transfer unrolled disks to a freezer container; freeze. To use, thaw dough in refrigerator until soft enough to roll. Prepare, bake and decorate as directed.

Steps:

• Mix the shortening, sugars and egg.
• Stir in water and vanilla.
• Stir together the dry ingredients then mix into the batter.
• Chill the dough.
• Enclose each wafer into about 1 tablespoon of dough.
• Place each on a greased baking sheet and bake in a 400 degree oven for 8-10 minutes, or until no imprint remains when touched lightly.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°. In a microwave, melt bittersweet chocolate chips and butter; stir until smooth. Cool slightly. In a large bowl, beat eggs and brown sugar. Stir in vanilla and chocolate mixture. Combine flour, baking powder and salt; gradually add to chocolate mixture. Stir in semisweet chocolate chips and candies., Drop by teaspoonfuls 3 in. apart on greased baking sheets. Bake 8-10 minutes or until edges are set. Cool 2 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks. Store in an airtight container.

Steps:

• Sift together the flour,baking soda and salt.
• Cream the butter, sugars.
• Add the eggs, vanilla- beat well.
• Blend in the dry ingredients.
• Cover and chill at least two hours or overnight.
• Take a tablespoon size amount of dough and enclose/conceal mint in dough.
• Place on ungreased baking sheet.
• Place walnut half on top.
• Bake at 375° for 9-12 minutes.

Steps:

• Cream butter and sugars until light and fluffy. Beat in vanilla and eggs, one at a time. In another bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder and salt; gradually beat into creamed mixture. Refrigerate, covered, until dough is firm enough to shape, about 2 hours. , Preheat oven to 375°. With floured hands, wrap tablespoonfuls of dough around mints (about 42) to form rectangular cookies, covering completely with dough. Place 2 in. apart on greased baking sheets., Bake until edges are golden brown, 10-12 minutes. Remove from pans to wire racks; cool completely., In a microwave or saucepan, melt remaining mints; drizzle over cookies.

Steps:

• Sift flour, soda, and salt.
• Cream butter and sugar well.
• Add eggs, water, and vanilla.
• Blend in dry ingredients gradually; mix thoroughly.
• Shape dough into rolls 1 1/2 inches in diameter. Wrap in wax paper. Chill at least four hours.
• Meanwhile, melt chocolate and cut into small, round wafers (the shape isn't so important -- just enough to fill the center of the cookie).
• Cut dough in slices 1/8" thick. Place on cookie sheet. Top one slice of dough with chocolate wafer. Cover with second slice and seal edges.
• Top with walnut half.
• Bake at 375 for 10-12 minutes.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
• Beat butter with an electric mixer on medium to high speed for 30 seconds. Add granulated sugar, baking powder, and salt; beat until combined. Beat in egg, egg yolks, and vanilla until combined. Beat in flour (you may need to hand mix some of it).
• Transfer 3/4 cup of the dough to a small bowl. Add powdered sugar, cocoa powder, and melted butter. Beat well. Shape into 1-inch balls.
• Beat almond extract into remaining dough. Mold about 1 tablespoons of almond dough around each cocoa ball. Roll gently to make smooth, round ball. Roll each ball in colored sugar or candy sprinkles. Place balls two inches apart on greased cookie sheet.
• Bake at 375 for 10-11 minutes or until bottoms are browned. Cool cookies on a pan for 1 minute then transfer to a wire rack. Cool completely.

Steps:

• Sift together the flour, baking soda and salt and set aside.
• Cream together the butter and Crisco.
• Add sugars and mix well. Add unbeaten eggs, water and vanilla and mix well.
• Blend in the dry ingredients and mix well.
• Chill dough.
• Open and unwrap the chocolate mint wafers (Eight O'Clock or Andres)
• Enclose each wafer in about 1 Tablespoon of dough and top each cookie with a walnut half.
• Place on ungreased baking sheet about 2 inches apart.
• Bake in moderate oven (recipe says 375°)for 10-12 minutes. You might consider a moderate oven to be 350°.