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Butter infused mint make up these fresh and delightful Mint chocolate chip cookies.ย ย This beautiful cookie recipe comes fromย Dishing Up The Dirtโs new cookbook.ย ย
Real Mint Chocolate Chip Cookies
I should clarify these are REAL mint chocolate chip cookies. Chocolate chip cookies made with fresh mint that you clipped from your garden and steeped in melted butter. Oh, this just got really good, didnโt it?
This is shaping up to be a very good year! So many new cookbooks have landed in my hands, and Iโm so inspired by all of them lately. My friends in the food world have been hustling hard lately, and Iโm so dang proud of them.
The recipe for these mint chocolate chip cookies comes from the lovely Andrea Bemisโ new cookbook, Dishing Up the Dirt!ย If you donโt know Andrea, let me catch you up real quick: sheโs an adorable farmer chick that writes incredible recipes using the ingredients fresh from her fields that she tends with her husband and dog. And the girl can photograph her recipes like a bossย andย write an incredible cookbook! Sheโs a gem, you guys.
Farm-to-Table Cooking
Iโve been reading her blog for 4+ years (you guys know I used to work in farming, right?), and I love her real-life approach to farm-to-table food. It makes me miss driving tractors!
Her gorgeous cookbook is mostly vegetarian and plant-based, but I considered it my duty to showcase one of her fabulous desserts.
I can just imagine Andrea trekking out to her bountiful mint patch in her muddy work boots with her farm dog trotting alongside her. The sun is starting to set, and sheโs wrapping up another long day of hard work on the farm. She clips a handful of fresh mint, and starts the long walk back to the house, reflecting on what she will make for dinner that night. It was slightly less romantic when I climbed over my fence and yanked up the last of the scraggly mint that escaped from one of my pots, sniffed it to make sure my dogs didnโt pee on it, and then ran back inside before my Tomโs got too dirty.
Andrea and I basically have the same life, you know. In my dreams!
How to Make Mint Chocolate Chip Cookiesย
These cookies make perfect use of all the mint you have growing in your garden.ย Hereโs what you need:
- Unsalted Butter
- Fresh Mint
- Dark Brown Sugar
- Sugar
- Egg
- Vanilla
- All-Purpose Flour
- Baking Soda
- Sea Salt
- Semi-sweet Chocolate Chips
Steep the mint in butter to start.ย This process will take about 30 minutes.ย Strain the butter and combine with the dark brown sugar and the white sugar in a stand mixer.ย Add the egg and vanilla and beat for an additional minute.ย In a separate bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda, and salt.ย Add the dry ingredients to the wet while the mixer is running.ย Gently mix in the chocolate chips.ย Remove and chill for about an hour.ย Divide into 12 balls and bake for 11-12 minutes.ย ย
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Mint Chocolate Chip Cookies
Chocolate chip cookies made with real fresh mint!
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter
- 1/2 cup firmly packed fresh mint, roughly chopped
- 1/2 cup firmly packed dark brown sugar
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1 egg, at room temperature
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon fine sea salt
- heaping 1/2 cup semisweet chocolate chips
Instructions
- Place the butter and mint in a small saucepan over medium heat. Melt the butter, swirling occasionally. After about 2-3 minutes, when you can smell the mint, turn the heat off and let the butter continue to steep for 30 minutes.
- Strain the butter, pressing the leaves to extract all of the butter from the leaves.
- Meanwhile, line two baking sheets with parchment paper, and set aside.
- In the bowl of a stand mixer, add the butter and sugars. Beat until light and creamy, 3-5 minutes.
- Next, add the egg and vanilla and beat for an additional minute.
- In a separate bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda and salt.
- Slowly add the dry ingredients to the mixer while running, stopping to scrape the bowl as necessary.
- Finally, add the chocolate chips and mix just until combined.
- Remove the cookie dough from the bowl, wrap in plastic wrap, and press flat into a disk. Chill for 1 hour.
- Preheat the oven to 350.
- Divide the dough into 12 equal portions, rolling into 12 balls. Space 6 balls on each cookie sheet (the cookies will spread considerably).
- Bake for 11-12 minutes, rotating the pans half-way through.
- Let cool on the baking sheet for 2 minutes, and then move to a cooling rack to cool completely.
Nutrition Information:
Yield:
12Serving Size:
1Amount Per Serving: Calories: 165Total Fat: 3gSaturated Fat: 2gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 1gCholesterol: 17mgSodium: 206mgCarbohydrates: 33gFiber: 1gSugar: 20gProtein: 2g
Finally, an ingredient I could use in my own garden! Loved it and the mint smells amazing in the cookies! If I can post a picture.. I would want to show how my cookies turns out. Is not the way I wanted. I wanted it to be like the picture you shown but itโs not :( Am I suppose to push the dough flat after I roll it into individual balls? Mine turns into a half dome. Any suggestions?
1) Can the dough be frozen to bake at a later time?
2) Should you add more butter if after you press all you can from the leaves you still are short the amount called for in the recipe?
1. Yes.
2. No, the recipe accounts for the small amount that is absorbed by the mint leaves. Great question :)
1) The cookies are better when frozen! The cookies are fluffier! But they will need extra time to cook. I score the dough into 12 parts break off the sections and roll into balls.
I also just freeze the butter if I donโt have time to make the cookies as I use chocolate mint from my garden.
2. I totally make these in batches of 4 and add an extra half a a stack of butter to make up the loss. It just mellows the flavor a bit. I also measure the mint with my heart ๐
This are absolutely delicious. Easy to follow recipe and easy to halve even further as I often have disasters so I donโt like to waste ingredients. I made eight balls. Perfect. Thank you!
I made these and quite like them! My only recommendation is to up the amount of chocolate chips.
Oh my YUM! I just took these out of the oven and they are so good!! I used Apple Mint this time. I grow quite a few mint varieties so Iโll try other types too. Maybe Orange Mint next ๐
Oh yummy! I used spearmint from my gardenโฆa nice delicate interesting flavor unlike peppermint. I also had to add a few more minutes to bake time as they were quite under done. Otherwise, great! Hubby loved too!
I made these tonight, thank you so much! They are really good!
Great cookies,
Was in a time crunch, used more mint and only steeped for ten minutes and put the dough in the freezer for thirty minutes. They needed 15 minutes to bake.
And if someone in your household doesnโt like mint, they are perfect. More cookies for us!
So sorry to be one of *those* people that says they loved it but changed a bunch of things but commenting in case anyone else was searching like me (specifically for a cookie recipe with chocolate mint).
First, love the smaller portions, makes a much more manageable baking experience so thank you! And really, the portions of this recipe were perfect.
โ I used light brown sugar because itโs what I had.
โ I weighed the refrigerated dough and made 12 equal balls but still needed an extra 4-6 minutes per batch.
โ I used chocolate mint and added another half cup (measured with my heart) directly into the dough. It was a lovely flavor.
โ I browned the butter before steeping and let the strained butter solidify slightly (basically let it cool for over an hour).
โ I used dark chocolate chips instead of semi-sweet. Again, a half cup measured with my heart.
โ I weighed the refrigerated dough and made 12 equal balls but still needed an extra 4-6 minutes per batch. The chilled dough balls shaped beautifully while baking.
Hoping to use these cookies to make ice cream sandwiches!
Itโs okay to be this person! Thank you for sharing your modifications because it helps other people asking if they can make the same changes. I appreciate you :) Thanks for typing all of this out :)