# Holiday Cookies with Andes Mint

These holiday cookies have a chocolate base with Andes Mint on top, are easy and delicious, and won a local newspaper's holiday cookie contest in 2012.

- Servings: 60 servings
- Total time: 71 min
- Cuisine: American
- Category: Dessert
- Language: en

## Ingredients

- 0.75 cup butter
- 1.5 cups brown sugar, packed
- 2 Tablespoons water
- 12 ounce package semisweet chocolate chips
- 2 eggs
- 2.5 Cups flour
- 2.5 teaspoons baking soda
- 0.5 teaspoons salt
- 3 (4.6 ounce) boxes Andes mints

## Instructions

1. Mix together brown sugar, butter, and two tablespoons of water in a saucepan.
2. Stir until the butter is melted.
3. Add one package of your favorite chocolate chips to the mixture.
4. Stir to combine until the chocolate chips are melted and set aside to let cool.
5. Meanwhile, mix your dry ingredients (flour, baking soda, and salt) in a separate bowl.
6. Once the chocolate mixture has cooled, add two eggs to it and stir to combine.
7. Add the cooled chocolate mixture to your dry ingredients.
8. Mix that up until you get a fairly solid, oily dough.
9. Chill the dough for one hour in the refrigerator.
10. Preheat your oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
11. Start forming 1-inch balls of dough and place them on a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper or silicone baking pads.
12. Bake for 11 minutes until cracks form on them and look a little wet inside.
13. Unpeel your Andes mints.
14. Place one Andes mint on each hot cookie immediately after removing them from the oven, and let them melt for a couple of minutes.
15. Take the back of a spoon and spread the melted Andes mint evenly on each cookie.
16. Remove the cookies from the cookie sheet and let them cool on a wire rack until the chocolate is solid.

## Equipment

- saucepan
- large bowl
- whisk
- oven
- cookie sheets
- parchment paper or silicone baking pads
- offset spatula or spoon
- cooling rack

## Tips

- Don't overcook the cookies.
- The dough might seem a little oily, but it will turn out fine once baked.
- These cookies store well, travel well, and freeze well.

## Source

- Original video: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTr5AVPeT/
- Recipe page: https://www.cliprecipe.com/recipe/4fe4d1ea-b263-432f-8553-bf67a0c0bfc1
- Extracted: 2025-12-04

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