- 1/2 cup Buttersoftened
- 1/2 cup Sugar
- 1 Egg yolkslarge
- 1/2 tsp Vanilla extract
- 1-1/2 cups All-purpose flour
- 1-1/2 tsp Baking powder
- 1/8 tsp Salt
- 3 tbsp Milk2%
- 1 cup Fresh mintfinely chopped
- 1-2/3 cups Chocolate chipssemisweet
- 1 tbsp Shortening
Delicate Mint Thins
This is such a fun recipe to make. Delicate Mint Thins are a crunchy mint flavored cookie dipped in chocolate. I make a batch of these any time I am invited to a dinner party and I put them in a cute box for the host. They are the perfect accompaniment for an after dinner coffee.
Lots of mint thin recipes use peppermint extract for the mint flavor but I find it can be a bit overpowering. I prefer to take a more subtle approach and use freshly chopped mint which you can see speckled through the cookie when it’s cooked.
The first thing I do is make the minty cookies – using standard cookie ingredients but with added mint. The cookie dough requires 2 hours refrigeration time so make sure you factor that in. Once cool, I decorate the baked cookies with chocolate. This is where I really start to have fun with this recipe – I never decorate these in the same way twice. Sometimes I cover them completely in chocolate, sometimes I dip half of each cookie in the chocolate to show some of the minty flecked cookie (this is the decorating technique I describe in this recipe but it’s up to you – let your imagination run wild!)
To make Delicate Mint Thins, you will need the following ingredients:
So, how to make Delicate Mint Thins?
Steps to make Delicate Mint Thins
1 | Cream the butter and sugar | 5 |
2 | Add egg yolk and vanilla | 5 |
3 | Mix the dry ingredients | 1 |
4 | Alternate adding flour mixture and milk | 5 |
5 | Add mint | 1 |
6 | Chill the cookie dough | 2h |
7 | Cut into cookies | 3 |
8 | Bake | 30 |
9 | Prepare the chocolate coating and decorate | 40 |
10 | Serve | |
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