I found this recipe on the Coconut & Lime Web site and had to make it! The original called for Hershey's Premier Baking Pieces Mini York Peppermint Patties, which I've never seen in the stores. So we substituted Junior Mints!Ingredients:
1 cup flour
1/2 cup unsalted butter at room temperature
1/2 cup light brown sugar
1/2 cup sugar
1/3 cup cocoa
1 egg, at room temperature
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking powder
2 boxes Junior Mints
Directions:
Preheat the oven to 350.
In a medium-sized bowl combine flour, cocoa, salt and baking powder. In a large bowl, cream the butter and sugars until light and fluffy. Add the egg and vanilla and combine thoroughly. Gradually add the dry ingredients to the sweetened butter and mix until a very thick dough forms. Use a spoon to fold in the peppermint and distributing them evenly.
Form cookies by dropping 1 teaspoon of dough on the sheet two inches apart. Flatten slightly then bake until light brown, about 12 minutes. Remove to a wire rack to cool.
Celia, Viri and I worked on this yummy recipe. The dough turned out thick but not "very" thick. Because the candies are not made for baking, the chocolate melted and the mint poured out in the oven. It was really hard to free them from the cookie sheet, and none came off in one piece. It was still super tasty, but very ugly. So for the remainder, we spread the dough in a small cookie pan and baked them like brownies. It mostly worked.
If you ever see those Hershey's Premier Baking Pieces Mini York Peppermint Patties in a store, please let me know!
-Liz :)
I've always had the best luck with "random" kinds of chips at Albertson's. Things that that tend to be seasonal, sadly.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the tip! I'm a WinCo gal, and they don't usually have much of the weird stuff. :)
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