Recipe For Cooking After Dinner Mint Cookies

Toaster Oven Cookies :: Holiday Cookies

After Dinner Mint Cookies

Source: Better Homes and Gardens Christmas Cookies

3/4 C. butter or margarine
1 C. sugar
1 tea. baking powder
1 egg
1/4 tea. mint extract or flavoring
Few drops green food coloring
2 1/4 C. flour
1/2 C. finely crushed chocolate sandwich cookies
    with white filling (about 6 cookies)
1 tea. vegetable shortening (optional)

Beat butter or margarine in a lrg. mixing bowl with an electric mixer on med. to high speed for 30 seconds. Add sugar and baking powder and beat until combined. Beat in egg, mint extract or flavoring, and enough food coloring to tint light to med. green. Beat in as much of the flour as you can with the mixer. Stir in any remaining flour with a wooden spoon. Divide dough in half. Cover and chill about 1 hr. or until easy to handle.

Roll one half of dough between two sheets of wax paper into an 8 x 7-in. rectangle. Peel off top sheet of wax paper. Sprinkle half of crushed cookies evenly over dough to within 1/4 in. of all sides. Roll up, jellyroll style, starting from one short side, removing bottom sheet of wax paper as you roll. Pin. to seal. Repeat with remaining dough and crushed cookies. Wrap rolls in wax paper or clear plastic wrap. Chill about 4 hr. or until firm.

Remove one roll of dough from the refrigerator. Unwrap and reshape slightly, if necessary. Cut dough into 1/4-in. thick slices. Place 2 in. apart on an unprepared cookie sheet.

Bake in a 375 degree F oven for 8 to 9 min. or until edges are firm. Cool on cookie sheet for 1 min. Remove and cool completely on wire racks. Repeat with remaining roll of dough. If desired, melt together chocolate and vegetable shortening in a heavy saucepan over low heat; drizzle over cookies.

Makes approximately 50.