Dark Chocolate & Mint Chip Brownie Cookies

The base cookie for this recipe, The Chewy Chocolate Cookie, is a recipe that I found while going through my file.  As I looked at the left-slanted cursive handwriting on the stained and wrinkled recipe card, I remembered when I wrote in that style.  It was in junior high!  I'm not sure of the recipe source (maybe copied from a Hershey's ad in Seventeen magazine?) but I remember making these cookies and thinking they tasted like brownies.  I copied the recipe down with my neatest handwriting and after all these years I still have it.

So, when I was at the grocery store and found a package of limited edition NESTLÉ® TOLL HOUSE® Dark Chocolate & Mint Morsels leftover from the holiday season, I decided to pull out this old recipe and pair it with these chips.  I had considered adding peppermint extract to the chocolate cookie dough to make sure I had enough mint flavor.  But, when I opened the bag of chips, I could smell the mint and decided against using more mint flavor.  I hoped the chips would be enough, and when I bit into my first cookie, I knew I had made the right decision.

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Dark Chocolate & Mint Chip Brownie Cookies

by Jill {www.dulcedough.com} March-4-2011

A chewy chocolate cookie with mint and dark chocolate chips.

Ingredients

• 1 1/4 cups butter, softened
• 2 cups sugar
• 2 eggs
• 2 teaspoons vanilla
• 2 cups all-purpose flour, unsifted
• 3/4 cup Hershey's Cocoa
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 2/3 cups Dark Chocolate & Mint Morsels or chips of your choice

Instructions

1. Cream butter and sugar in large bowl; add eggs and vanilla and blend well.2. In a separate bowl combine flour, cocoa, baking soda, and salt.3. Blend dry ingredients into the creamed mixture; stir in chips.4. Drop by heaping teaspoonfuls onto ungreased cookie sheet.5. Bake at 350° for 8 to 10 minutes. (Do not overbake.)6. Cool on cookie sheet until set, about 1 minute.7. Remove to wire rack to cool completely.

Details

Prep time: 10 mins Cook time: 10 mins Total time: 20 mins Yield: 4 1/2 dozen