Mint Chocolate Crinkles – chopped mint Andes candies are melted throughout that chocolate crinkle cookie we all grew up with.
I’ve always loved Chocolate Crinkles.
It’s the first Monday in March which means it’s time for the Cookie of the Month. I, along with a bunch of other wonderful bloggers are baking cookies. It’s a fun thing to do since cookies are my favorite dessert, but even more fun and challenging because we’re given a certain ingredient we have to use each month. For March, the ingredient is mint!
SAVE THESE MINT CHOCOLATE CRINKLES TO YOUR FAVORITE PINTEREST BOARD!
Chocolate Crinkles were one cookie mom made a lot when I was growing up.
I don’t ever remember her making chocolate chip cookies, it was always the crinkles.
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Mint Chocolate Crinkles
Ingredients
- 1 ½ cups flour
- ¾ cup granulated sugar
- ½ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon Kosher salt
- 6 tablespoons unsalted butter melted.
- 2 large eggs
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- ¾ cup mini semi-sweet chocolate chips
- 40 Andes Creme De Menthe Thins chopped, plus remainder chopped for topping
- ½ cup confectioners’ sugar
Instructions
- Into a large bowl, thoroughly whisk together the flour, granulated sugar, cocoa powder, baking powder, salt.
- In a small bowl, beat the eggs and add the vanilla.
- Pour the eggs and melted butter into the dry ingredients and mix until thoroughly combined.
- Mix in the chocolate chips, and chopped Andes mint candies.
- Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least two hours.
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees F. Prepare a baking sheet by lining it with parchment.
- Place the 1/2 cup confectioners’ sugar into a small bowl.
- Using a flat tablespoon of dough, roll into a ball and roll in confectioners’ sugar.
- Your hands could get sticky as the dough warms up, so try to roll them as quickly in your hands as possible.
- Place covered dough balls onto prepared baking sheet about 1-inch apart.
- Bake for 12 minutes until cookies are puffed and appear crinkled.
- Allow to cool on a baking sheet for 5 minutes. Make a slight indentation in the top of each cookie and into it sprinkle a couple of the remaining chopped candies. Transfer to a wire rack.
I rate everything I make on a scale of 1 -4 with 4 being the best and these Mint Chocolate Crinkles earned 3 rolling pins.
They were good, I was just disappointed that the Andes candies melted in the cookies. I was hoping they wouldn’t, but adding those extra chopped pieces to the top was a good thing.
I didn’t add any peppermint extract because it would have been too overpowering with the flavoring and the candy.
Just the use of the candies even though they melted gave it the perfect taste of mint. I also think I would have liked the cookies to be bigger, and next time I’ll use two tablespoonfuls of dough instead of just the one.
Be sure to check out the other mint cookies these wonderful bloggers have made for Cookie of the Month!
Jen’s Favorite Cookies – Mint Crinkles (great minds think alike, right? 😉 )
Tastes of Lizzy T – Peppermint Stuffed Chocolate Cookies
Kelli’s Kitchen – Melt-in-Your-Mouth Mint Meringues
Bake or Break – Chocolate Peppermint Whoopie Pies
Crumb: A Food Blog- White Chocolate Grasshopper Cookies
Posed Perfection – Mint Milano Cookies
If you like these Mint Chocolate Crinkles then you’ll probably love…
Chocolate Cherry Crinkles
Chocolate Mint Dream Bars
Double Chocolate Peppermint Kisses
Comments & Reviews
Hello from Yum Girl and Kelli – these look great and with 40 Andes Mints what is there not to love?!?! These would be very popular at this house and I plan on trying them ver soon!
I love that little pile of Andes mints on there! 🙂
Love the minty twist on chocolate crinkles!
These look absolutely delicious! I’ve always been a fan of chocolate crinkle cookies, but never thought to put chocolate chips in them, much less Andes candies! Yum! Pinned!
Blessings,
Nici
Love these! Crinkles are so awesome, aren’t they? I love that you used the Andes mints in them, I bet they are fantastic. I’m kind of glad to know that they melt, actually. Then you get a melty little surprise!
These look beyond fantastic. MINT FOREVER!! Pinned!
These look wonderful! I have a mint-chocolate crinkle cookie that I’ve been making as part of my holiday cookie trays for years, but mine are missing that crowning touch of chopped Andes bars… so yours are clearly the superior version. 🙂 I need to track down some Andes mints stat so I can bake up a batch of these lovelies (and also try not to eat the whole bag before I even start baking cookies… which has been known to happen.)
I have never made a crinkle cookie. Is that weird?!? This minty crinkle is making me want to give it a try. Yum!
Get on that, girl!! LOL!! They are SO good, Nicole. Once you make them, I bet you’ll be hooked!
Just made these for the wife’s birthday. Can’t decide if she loves me or hates me! I added the bits just after taking them out of the oven, so they melted just enough so they won’t fall out when taking a bite.
That’s awesome, Matt! Hopefully, she loves you more. I take no responsibility for the opposite. haha 😉
Is the dough supposed to be crumbly when mixed? Seemed like it didn’t have enough moisture before going in the fridge.
Hey Jb, it’s been a while since I’ve made these cookies, but I don’t remember the dough being dry. How were they after you baked them?