MINT CHRISTMAS COOKIES

Mint Christmas Cookies made up of a buttery butter cookie swaybacked in chocolate with vacation sprinkles. Mint tasteful Christmas Cookies excellent for cookie exchanges and gift plates!

Ingredients

• 1 cup butter softened (2 sticks)
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 2 tsp mint extract
• 2 cups flour
• 1 tsp leaven
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 10-15 drops inexperienced food product
• 2 cups melting chocolate*
• festive sprinkles

Instructions

• With an electrical mixer, cream the butter with the sugar till the mixture is light-weight and soft. Add in mint extract and coloring.
• Add flour, leaven and salt. combine till it forms a dough.
• Divide the dough in 0.5. On a sheet of paper, kind every 0.5 into AN 8-inch log. Chill the logs, wrapped within the paper, for a minimum of two hours or nightlong. (If you are ironed for time, half-hour within the fridge works well too!) I continually aim for spherical logs and find yourself with a lot of oval form. It works!
• Heat the kitchen appliance to 300°F. Line baking sheets with parchment paper.
• Cut the logs into ¼-inch-thick slices with a pointy knife. prepare the slices two inches apart on baking sheets.
• Bake the cookies on the highest rack of the kitchen appliance for 22-26 minutes.
• Transfer to wire racks to cool down. Heat chocolate in microwave for one minute. Stir gently and continue heating in fifteen second increments till swish.
• Dip 3/4 of the cookie into chocolate into chocolate. assault paper and add vacation sprinkles. don't take away till cool and set.
• Recipe Notes
• *You will use chocolate chips + one tsp vegetable oil or shortening mixed in in situ of melting chocolate.

Reference : familycookierecipes