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Brian's Chocolate Mint Christmas Cookies

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Title:
Brian's Chocolate Mint Christmas Cookies

Yield:
3 Dozen

Categories:
Cookies,
Christmas




Ingredients:





   1/2 c  Butter, unsalted


     1 c  Sugar, granulated


     1 lg Egg, beaten


   1/2 ts Vanilla extract


   1/2 ts Mint extract


   1/2 ts Mint extract


   1/2 c  Flour, unbleached


   1/4 ts Salt


   1/2 ts Baking powder,


          -double-acting


     2 oz Chocolate, unsweetened


          Non-paralleils,


          -multi-colored


     2 ts Water






 Beat butter until soft; gradually add sugar and blend until creamy. Mix in


 beaten egg and extracts.  DON'T USE A FOOD PROCESSOR!!!


 


 Stir salt and baking powder into flour; stir into butter/sugar mixture.


 


 Melt chocolate in water over a double-boiler; add to dough. Form into a


 long roll approximately 2" - 3" wide. Wrap dough with plastic wrap and


 chill overnight.


 


 Slice dough 1/4" thick and place on greased cookie sheet. Sprinkle with


 non-paralleils and press in slightly with back of spoon. Bake in 400 degree


 oven for 8 - 10 minutes. Cool cookies on rack.


 


 Vicki's notes:


 


 *  Can substitute 3 oz. semi-sweet chips for the chocolate.


 


 *  These cookies came about when my husband asked me to make chocolate-mint


 cookies for Christmas.  (They are based on the refrigerator cookies in "Joy


 of Cooking," with my own variations.) Although disappointed because he


 really wanted Girl Scout cookies (!), everybody
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 had several requests for the recipe. (Actually, my husband usually asks for


 chocolate chip cookies, no matter what time of year...)


 


 From Gemini's MASSIVE MealMaster collection at www.synapse.com/~gemini

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