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1 1/4
cups all-purpose flour
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1/2
teaspoon baking soda
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6
tablespoons butter
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2/3
cup packed brown sugar
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1
tablespoon water
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1
6 ounce package (1 cup) semisweet chocolate pieces
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1
egg, lightly beaten
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Pastel cream mint kisses
1. In a small bowl, stir together flour and baking soda; set aside. In a medium saucepan, combine butter, brown sugar, and water. Cook and stir over low heat until butter is melted. Add chocolate pieces; cook and stir until chocolate is melted. Pour mixture into a large bowl; cool for 10 minutes.
2. Using a wooden spoon, stir egg into chocolate mixture. Stir in flour mixture until combined. Cover and chill for 1 to 2 hours or until dough is easy to handle.
3. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Shape dough into 1-inch balls. Place 2 inches apart on an ungreased cookie sheet.
4. Bake for 8 minutes. Immediately place a mint kiss on top of each cookie. Bake about 2 minutes more or until edges are set. If desired, gently swirl the melted mints with a table knife. Transfer cookies to a wire rack; cool until melted mints are firm. Makes about 48 cookies.
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Maybe I did something wrong, but the cookies were very crunchy. And the mints wouldn't spread. But some of the people who tried them, loved them. I'll try again next year with hopefully better luck!!!
12/28/2011 09:33:24 PM Report AbuseI use Hickory Farms Peppermint Snow Mints. They actually spread better than the pastel mints. The recipe also works well with margarine or spread - doesn't have to be butter.
12/4/2011 01:44:36 PM Report AbuseThese cookies have been a family favorite for a number of years now, but you are right that the pastel creams have been harder and harder to find. Hickory Farms no longer has the big ones only the mini ones. Walmart has had them but not consistently. Finding a specialty candy store is not easy either. I still do my best to have them on my list of Christmas cookies every year.
11/28/2010 07:10:42 PM Report AbuseI've made these with Andes Candies and they are excellent. Just make cookie and put 1/2 a candy an top of each cookie when they come from the oven. The last two years we found Andes Candies in Cherry around the Holidays. Tastes very close to a chocolate covered cherry. Yum, Yum
12/20/2009 11:57:17 AM Report AbuseI have a recipe like this in a Better Homes and Gardens Christmas Cookie book from years ago and these are delicious. You can get the pastel mints in pink & yellow, too, if you like more colorful plates full of them.
12/18/2009 08:27:04 AM Report Abuse