Easy one-bowl chocolate mint cookie recipe! These soft mint chocolate chocolate chip cookies are so easy to make.
It’s cookie season! I love all of the baking this time of year, and I pretty much make cookies for about a month straight leading up to Christmas.
This Chocolate Mint Cookie recipes makes soft and chewy mint chocolate chocolate chip cookies. The cookies are soft in the middle with chewy edges and plenty of chocolate chips throughout.
The mint flavor in the cookies is noticeable without being overpowering, and the mint makes the cookies a nice seasonal alternative to the usual chocolate chip cookies.
How To Make Chocolate Mint Cookies
In a large heavy saucepan, melt the butter. Remove from heat and stir in brown sugar. Let it stand 5 minutes.
Add the eggs and stir in. Stir in extracts until combined.
Add dry ingredients and stir in just until combined. Stir in chocolate chips just until incorporated.
Cover and chill for at least 30 minutes. Scoop dough and place on the prepared baking sheet. Bake for about 8-10 minutes.
Tips For Making Chocolate Mint Cookies
Tips For Making Chocolate Mint Cookies- Butter: I like to use salted butter in this recipe. However, feel free to use unsalted butter if you prefer.
- Peppermint extract: Be sure to use peppermint extract rather than spearmint extract. Spearmint extract has more of a mouthwash flavor to it. Also, feel free to use more or less peppermint extract to taste.
- Flour: I highly recommend weighing your ingredients. If you don’t weigh your ingredients, stir or sift the flour to break it up. Lightly spoon it into the measuring cup to avoid packing it in. Then level it off.
- Chocolate chips: I like to use dark chocolate chips in these cookies. However, feel free to use milk chocolate or semisweet chocolate chips or chocolate chunks instead. You can also use the mint chocolate chips that are available around the holidays.
- Baking: The cookies should look soft and slightly underbaked in the middle. This will help to keep the cookies soft.
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Chocolate Mint Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter
- 1 ½ cups brown sugar packed
- 2 large eggs
- 2 teaspoons peppermint extract NOT spearmint
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 ½ cups all-purpose flour¹
- 1/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 3/4 teaspoon kosher salt²
- 10 ounces dark chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375F. Line baking sheets with parchment paper or silicone baking mat.
- Melt butter in a large heavy saucepan.
- Remove from heat, and stir brown sugar into melted butter.
- Let stand 5 minutes.
- Add eggs; stir to combine.
- Stir in vanilla and peppermint extracts.
- Add flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, and salt. Stir until just combined.
- Stir in chocolate chips just until incorporated.
- Cover and chill for at least 30 minutes. If the dough has been in the fridge for more than 2 hours, let it sit for about 10 minutes before scooping and baking.
- Using a medium cookie scoop (1.5 tablespoon), drop scoops of dough 2 inches apart on prepared cookie sheet.
- Bake for about 8-10 minutes, or until the edges of the cookies are set. The center will look soft and slightly underdone.
- Let cool on cookie sheet for 5 minutes.
- Remove to wire rack to finish cooling.
Notes
- Correctly measuring the ingredients is key. I suggest either weighing the ingredients or aerating the flour (sifting or fluffing) and then scooping and leveling. Packing in too much flour will cause the cookies not to spread or to be dry and crumbly.
- Or scant 1/2 teaspoon table salt
- I recommend stirring this recipe together by hand rather than using a hand or stand mixer.
- Nutrition values are estimates.
Nutrition
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Comments & Reviews
Jess says
Absolutely delicious. Perfect amount of peppermint. I made these with chocolate morsels. I did find it was too much chocolate morsels to dough ratio. I think that would still hold true if I’d used chips. Not too bothered though as it was super yummy.
Kate says
Hi! Thank you! If you find that there are too many chocolate chips for your liking, you can use fewer. =)
Nicole says
These are my new go-to cookies! Everyone loves them
Kate says
Thank you! I’m glad you like them!
Tricia says
What’s not to love?! The chocolate and mint are perfect together and warm out of the oven they are a bit of heaven.
Kate says
Thank you!
Julia Kim says
Why do you not provide the recipe in weight when you recommend weighing the flour?
Kate says
Hi! There was a glitch that caused the button for the weights to disappear. If you click on “Metric” it will show you the weights for the ingredients.
Zsuzsanna says
Hi Kate,
I was so excited about this recipe, but it didn’t work out for me. Having said that, I didn’t follow your recommendation on sifting the flour. I never do it in my well-tried chocolate chip cookies so I thought I would skip it. The final result is far from your pictures. My cookies didn’t spread, and they taste very flour-y and dry.
Do you think it was just the sifting issue, or anything else?
Kate says
Hi! I’m sorry to hear that! I do think that the flour made a difference. When the cookies don’t spread it’s either 1) old baking soda 2) the oven temp is too high, and the cookies set before they get a chance to spread or 3) too much flour in the dough. Since you said that they tasted flour-y, it sounds like there was too much flour in the dough.
A cup of flour can weigh anywhere from about 115 grams to 150+ grams depending on how the flour is added to the cup. I use a 120 gram cup. So, I recommend sifting or stirring up the flour to break it up before spooning it in because packed flour can add a lot of flour to the dough, and that flour adds up quickly with each cup of flour added. I hope that helps, and if you have any other questions, please feel free to ask!
Zsuzsanna says
Thank you for your suggestions, Kate!
Melissa says
Love chocolate and mint together and these are amazing. Ate too many when they came out of the oven, but I guess I can’t blame you for that:)
Kate says
Thank you! So glad you liked the cookies. Thanks for commenting!