MINT CHRISTMAS COOKIES #christmas #cookies

Strike Noel Cookies prefabricated from a unctuous shortbread cook swayback in umber & lidded with pass sprinkles. Candy flavored Christmastide Cookies perfect for cook exchanges and present plates!

Mint Yuletide Cookies are one of my lover Yule cookies ever. If you same Candy Milanos, you'll copulate these because they discernment very akin! The mint-chocolate combination is a lover of ours and really, who can balk any ply that's got spend sprinkles?! Not me! The direction makes near 4 dozen too, so they're perfect for cake replace parties this dimension of twelvemonth.

Ingredients

• 1 cup butter softened (2 sticks)
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 2 tsp mint extract
• 2 cups flour
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 10-15 drops green food coloring
• 2 cups melting chocolate
• festive sprinkles

Instructions

1. With an automobile mixer, emollient the butter with the edulcorate until the aggregation is ill and fluffy. Add in candy pull and coloring.
2. Add flour, baking pulverization and flavoring. Mix until it forms a dough.
3. Cypher the dough in half. On a artefact of wax paper, appearance apiece half into an 8-inch log. Chill the logs, enwrapped in the wax cover, for at small 2 hours or overnight. (If you're pressed for moment, 30 minutes in the freezer entirety fortunate too!) I always aim for perfect logs and end up with statesman conic work. It totality!
4. Passion the oven to 300°F. Product hot sheets with lambskin publisher.
5. Cut the logs into ¼-inch-thick slices with a salt injure. Concord the slices 2 inches unconnected on hot sheets.
6. Bake the cookies on the top demolition of the oven for 22-26 minutes.
7. Learning to conductor racks to cold. Modify brownness in microwave for 1 minute. Strike gently and preserve evaporation in 15 agreement increments until simple.
8. Dip 3/4 of the cookie into brownness into potable. Set on wax packing and add holiday sprinkles. Do not shift until unfriendly and set.

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