Calling all mint chocolate lovers! These amazing and easy mint chocolate chip cookies are a favorite for any time of the year, but because of their bright green color they are especially perfect to bake for Christmas, St. Patrick’s day, or another green-themed event! Keep things simple by mixing up the cookie dough from a bag of classic Betty Crocker™ sugar cookie mix before adding in the chocolate and mint. Remember to pick up green food coloring along with your creme de menthe baking chips and mint extract to transform this classic sugar dough into delightfully festive and deliciously minty cookies. Keep this recipe on hand for the next time you are baking a treat to celebrate one of your favorite green holidays or for those times when you are just in the mood for a deliciously decadent mint chocolate chip dessert.
How to Store and Reheat Mint Chocolate Chip Cookies
Below are our tips on how to store for best results.
Room Temperature
Store cooled cookies in a tightly-covered food storage container or resealable food storage bag at room temperature for up to 4 days.
Freezer
- Baked Cookies: Store in covered food storage container or a resealable freezer food storage bag up to 2 months.
- Unbaked Cookies: Store unportioned dough in a resealable freezer food storage bag. Or you can pre-portion them by scooping out cookies onto a parchment lined cookie sheet and freeze uncovered for 1 to 2 hours. Once hard, transfer the cookie dough to a resealable freezer food storage bag.
Thawing and Baking
- Unportioned Frozen Dough: Thaw in refrigerator overnight before forming individual cookies and baking.
- Pre-measured Frozen Dough: Place premeasured dough pieces on cookie sheet. Let stand at room temperature until thawed, about 30 minutes, then bake.
Microwave Warming
- Room Temperature Cookies: Place cookie on a microwavable plate. Microwave on Low (30%) 15 seconds or until warm
- Frozen Cookies: Place frozen cookie on a microwavable plate. Let stand at room temperature (10 minutes or until thawed). Heat as directed for room temperature cookies.
Other Minty Treats
Make the ultimate mint-chocolate chip cookie ice cream sandwiches! Cool your cookies and add mint chocolate chip ice cream to the center of two cookies. Press together and either eat right away or wrap tightly in plastic wrap and freeze to enjoy later. Label the outside and then eat within two months
Chocolate-Mint Cookies: Want to try your hand at a from-scratch version of this recipe? This is the perfect place to start. We’ll show you how to go from dough to oven, step by step.
Chocolate Mini Pinwheels: Another delightfully green cookie recipe with mint and chocolate swirls that also uses our classic Betty Crocker™ Sugar Cookie mix.
Mint Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Prep Time 25 min
- Total 40 min
- Servings 36
- Ingredients 7
Ingredients
- 1 pouch (17.5 oz) Betty Crocker™ Sugar Cookie Mix
- 1/2 cup butter or margarine, softened
- 1/4 to 1/2 teaspoon mint extract
- 6 to 8 drops green food color
- 1 large egg
- 1 cup creme de menthe baking chips
- 1 cup semisweet chocolate chunks
Instructions
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Step1Heat oven to 350°F. In large bowl, stir cookie mix, butter, extract, food color and egg until soft dough forms. Stir in creme de menthe baking chips and chocolate chunks.
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Step2Using small cookie scoop or teaspoon, drop dough 2 inches apart on ungreased cookie sheet.
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Step3Bake 8 to 10 minutes or until set. Cool 3 minutes; remove from cookie sheet to wire rack. Serve warm or cool completely. Store tightly covered at room temperature.
Nutrition
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 1 Cookie
- Calories
- 140
- Calories from Fat
- 60
- Total Fat
- 7g
- 11%
- Saturated Fat
- 4 1/2g
- 21%
- Trans Fat
- 1/2g
- Cholesterol
- 15mg
- 4%
- Sodium
- 75mg
- 3%
- Potassium
- 25mg
- 1%
- Total Carbohydrate
- 17g
- 6%
- Dietary Fiber
- 0g
- 0%
- Sugars
- 13g
- Protein
- 1g
% Daily Value*:
- Vitamin A
- 0%
- 0%
- Vitamin C
- 0%
- 0%
- Calcium
- 0%
- 0%
- Iron
- 0%
- 0%
