Celebrate the joyous Christmas season with some delightful and festive Brownie Mint Cookies! Serve them up with a side of hot chocolate and cuddle up and enjoy them by the glow of the tree!
It’s been a little while since I’ve shared a recipe here on the blog and I’ve missed it! I truly love baking and I continue to do it often, but other things have taken precedence over recipe creation and blogging lately. I’m so happy to be back at it, though, and I hope to share lots more recipes with you in the coming new year!
Christmas baking is my favorite kind of baking! I love turning on my favorite holiday movie or a sappy Hallmark show and watching it while mixing up some goodness in the kitchen! My family begs for cookies on-the-daily, so I cycle through all of our favorite recipes to keep them smiling. This cookie-obsessed gal certainly is not complaining about having to bake cookies regularly. I secretly love when my kids ask me to bake.
I’ve never been one to buy pre-packaged goodies at the store. So then if we get a sweet tooth craving, we have to make something ourselves. Although it might require a little more effort than unwrapping a brownie or cookie, homemade is better anyways! I always pat myself on the back when I take that first bite of a fresh-out-of-the-oven cookie and my taste buds start to dance like the sugar plum fairies!
Speaking of sugar plum fairies, I’m so excited to be taking my girls to The Nutcracker Ballet this month! We will be packing in all the Christmas activities in the days leading up to the 25th. The month always goes by too fast! So we like to set up our tree in November and then start the Christmas activities then, too, so we can maximize the fun! I’ve always been a big believer that Thanksgiving and Christmas can be celebrated simultaneously. In fact, it’s much better that way, at least in my book.
Here are a few of my favorite Christmas cookies to add to your baking list: Very Merry Christmas M&M Cookies, Christmas Cake Mix Cookies Three Ways, Hot Chocolate Cookies, Chocolate Crinkle Cookies, Grinch Cookies, Orange Cranberry White Chocolate Cookies and Santa’s Favorite Cookie Bar. I hope you get to try them all!
In keeping with a much-loved tradition of mine, I’m joining with some very wonderful blogging friends in the Sweetest Season Cookie Exchange. It’s all for a wonderful cause! Each of us will be sharing a yummy holiday cookie recipe throughout this week in support of Cookies for Kids’ Cancer. Please make and enjoy the tasty recipes and considering donating to this very worthy charity.
This recipe is part of The Sweetest Season, an annual virtual cookie swap co-hosted by Erin of The Speckled Palate and Susannah of Feast + West. Every year, food bloggers get together to share new holiday cookie recipes to make and give.
This year we are raising money for Cookies 4 Kids’ Cancer, which is a recognized 501(c)3 non-profit organization dedicated to funding research for new, innovative and less-toxic treatments for childhood cancer.
Since 2008, Cookies for Kids’ Cancer has granted nearly $18 million to pediatric cancer research in the form of 100+ research grants to leading pediatric cancer centers across the country. From these grants have stemmed 35+ treatments available to kids battling cancer today.
Help us raise money for this important cause! Donate through our fundraising page.
Another exciting thing is that Cookies for Kids’ Cancer is in a matching window with their friends at OXO, meaning OXO will be matching every dollar raised through the end of 2023, up to $100,000. Whatever money we raise will automatically double on our fundraising page!
My family all agrees that these are some of the best cookies we’ve ever had the pleasure of eating. They are the ideal blend of chocolate and mint. The fudge mint chocolate chunks add the perfect texture and amazing flavor! These are my new go-to cookie for Christmas goodie plates and holiday parties! I hope you get to enjoy these all throughout the joyous season!
May your Christmas be magical and full of love and joy! I wish you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Christine of I Dig Pinterest
Yields About 21 larger cookies
Save RecipeIngredients
- 1 c. salted butter, softened
- 1 c. light brown sugar, packed
- 3/4 c. granulated sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 2 tsp. vanilla extract
- 2 c. all-purpose flour
- 3/4 c. baking cocoa (good quality)
- 1 tsp. baking soda
- 3/4 tsp. salt
- 1 1/4 c. fudge baking chunks or an equal combo of chocolate chips and mint chips, plus more for topping
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
- Line baking sheets with nonstick baking liners or lightly spray with nonstick spray.
- In the bowl of an electric mixer, cream together the softened butter, brown sugar and granulated sugar. It should turn light in color and be nice and creamy. Stop the mixer to scrape down the sides of the bowl with a spatula and then continue creaming.
- Add eggs and vanilla and cream together, again scraping down the sides in between.
- In a separate bowl, whisk together flour, baking cocoa, baking soda and salt.
- Add the flour mixture to the wet mixture and mix just until combined, scraping down the sides of the bowl with a spatula in between.
- Stir in fudge baking chunks by hand.
- Chill the dough in the fridge for 30 minutes.
- Roll the dough into 2" in diameter balls. Place at least 2" apart on the prepared sheets (only two per row). Before baking, press the dough balls down with the palm of your hand to flatten into what looks like a hockey puck.
- Bake for 9 to 10 minutes (smaller dough balls will only need about 8 minutes). Bake just until they are set, but be careful not to overbake!
- Right after removing them from the oven, carefully and lightly sprinkle and press a pinch of fudge baking chips on top of the hot cookies.
- Allow them to cool for about 10 minutes on the sheets before carefully removing them to a cooling rack to cool completely.
- Store in an airtight container and enjoy within a day for optimal flavor and texture.
I hope these cookies bring lots of smiles this holiday season! For all other Christmas cookie recipes, go HERE.
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