Something Minty

I am beginning my annual Christmas cookie baking and I realized that with chocolate cookies, jelly-filled cookies, nutty cookies...I'm missing something minty.

I don't want to make anything with crushed candy canes/starlite mints/etc or wrap dough around an Andes candy, and I already feel to lazy to bother tempering chocolate for dipping. If anyone has a tasty recipe they'd like to share (or point me in the direction of), I'd appreciate it!

Thanks!

These grasshopper squares from Gourmet a few years back are awesome (and insanely rich!) I made a variation on them in another flavor for the first dessert exchange, if you can remember them through that haze of sweet. The original mint version is quite minty and almost candy-like, without requiring tempering and dipping.

I was in Aldi the other day and they had bags of Andes, broken up to use as chips in cookies. They were in with all of the other seasonal baking stuff.

We've got a mint brownie recipe, just a fudgy brownie, a layer of green-tinted mint frosting above, and a melted chocolate glaze over the top. If you want details, I can fetch it.

I made these 2 years ago and will again this year. They were enthusiastically received and not too tricky. For variety I split the filling, adding cinnamon to half and the mint to the other.

http://www.101cookbooks.com/archives/mi ... ecipe.html

I cheated and put candy canes and peppermint patties into my packages

eli wrote:These grasshopper squares from Gourmet a few years back are awesome (and insanely rich!) I made a variation on them in another flavor for the first dessert exchange, if you can remember them through that haze of sweet. The original mint version is quite minty and almost candy-like, without requiring tempering and dipping.

I love these too . . . just made some the other day as part of a cookie/candy gift package.