Mint Chocolate Thumb Print Cookies
Here are the Ingredients you will need:
Cookies
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1 cup butter (softened)
1 teas. vanilla
1 egg yolk
1 1/2 Cups All purpose Flour
1/4 cup Unsweetened Baking Cocoa
Mint Filling
1/4 cup butter (softened)
1 cup powdered Sugar
1 TBSP. milk
1/4 tsp. peppermint extract
2 drops of green food coloring
Drizzle topping
1/4 cup semisweet chocolate chips
1/4 teas. shortening
To make your cookies Heat oven to 375. In large bowl cream together sugar, butter and vanilla until fluffy. Beat in egg yolk until smooth. Then gradually add flour and cocoa (I will tell you the recipe only calls for 1 1/2 cups of flour and my batter wqas a little cream and unrollable so I added a little more flour until desired consistency.
Shape dough into balls about 1 inch in size. Place on ungreased cookies sheet and then with your thumb make an indentation in the middle of the cookie then bake for 7-9 minutes. Remove from oven and immediately place cookies on cooling rack. Let cool completely before adding filling (about 30 minutes).
For filling:
In small bowl cream butter and powdered sugar together on low speed until smooth. Meat in milk & peppermint extract then add desired food coloring.
Pplace chocolate chips & shortening in a ziploc bag and heat in microwave for about 1 minute. Gently squeeze bag until chocolate is smooth. Cut a tiny corner off of the bag then drizzle over each cookie. Let stand about 1 hour before serving. I placed mine in the fridge to allow filling to set up better.
A variation of this recipe. You could also do red food coloring instead of green adn then sprinkle Crushed Peppermint candies on top and they would be very tasty as well:)
This recipe make about 4 dozen cookies.
Serve & enjoy.
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