Andes Mint Cookies - Soft-baked and chewy! The perfect cookies for Christmas and perfect for gifting cookies in a jar for the holidays!
Growing up as a little girl, I never liked anything minty including mint chocolate chip ice cream. Gasp! I couldn't stand it, and I tried to stay very far away from it. It's amazing how your taste buds for certain foods changes as your get older. So many things were great, including these Andes Mint cookies.
You are in for a treat today if you are a mint fanatic, like my husband or how I am starting to be. These mint cookies are soft-baked, chewy, and loaded with chopped Andes mints. And I thought you wouldn't be able to guess the ingredient they are loaded with. 😉
If you are a fan of the combination of mint and chocolate, you are going to love our mint chocolate chip cookies or our mint cheesecake brownies!
When I was making the cookie dough the other day, I decided to use pre-chopped Andes mints, as in their baking bits. It made it so much easier and then I chopped a few whole Andes mints and added them to the tops of each cookie. It make my life so much easier and yours too!
If you haven't ever used a cookie scoop before, you are going to be in heaven! It makes it so much easier to scoop the cookies onto the cookie sheet. The only downside to using a cookie scoop is not having cookie dough on your fingers. I love licking cookie dough off my fingers!
Andes Mint Cookies – Soft-baked and chewy! The perfect cookies for Christmas and perfect for gifting cookies in a jar for the holidays!
- 12 tbsp (1.5 sticks) unsalted butter, softened at room temperature
- ¾ cup light brown sugar, packed
- ¼ cup granulated sugar
- 1 large egg
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 tsp cornstarch
- 1 tsp baking soda
- ½ tsp salt
- 1 cup Andes Creme De Menthe Baking Chips
- 5 Andes Cream De Menthe Thins, chopped into chunks
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Cream together the butter, light brown sugar, and granulated sugar until lightly and fluffy with a handheld or a stand mixer.
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Add in the egg and cream everything together.
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Slow mix in the flour, cornstarch, baking soda, and salt until the cookie dough has formed.
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Fold in the Andes Creme De Menthe baking chips.
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Wrap the cookie dough in plastic wrap and store in the refrigerator at for least 3 hours or up to 72 hours.
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Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper or a silicon baking mat.
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Scoop 1.5-2 tablespoons of cookie dough onto the cookie sheet and bake for 9-11 minutes.
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Remove from oven and allow the cookies to cool for 2 minutes, and then transfer to a cooling rack.
Nutrition estimated is based upon the brands I used. Yours may vary depending on brands.
These are absolutely delicious. They taste like chewy chocolate chip cookies meets Andes Mints. I live in Singapore, so used Andes Mints chips brought from the U.S. But, they were selling the wrapped Andes Mints for the holidays here and I snagged them. This recipe will be made again. Perfect for Christmas or any time of year.
These cookies were perfect! Used the recipe as it was written, and the cookies came out just like the picture, couldn't have asked for a better holiday cookie.
These are delicious! My family loves them.
Made exactly as described and they turned out perfectly. They are absolutely delicious! Five stars!
I made these today, they came out fantastic!! Thank you for sharing ????
So glad you enjoyed it, Laura!!
Yum! Every time I take these to a holiday party, they get raves!
Looking forward to making these for my nephew. When do you add the Andes chunks of top? Before or after baking?
I added them after, Cindy.
Have you ever frozen these cookies - either the dough or once baked? Thank you.
I haven't personally tried it, Megan. You should be able to freeze the cookie dough, roll the dough into balls, and then freeze it on a baking sheet.