You’re going to love this twist on chocolate chips cookies! These soft and chewy cookies are flavored with peppermint extract and packed with mint chips, chocolate chips, and/or Andes candies.
This is a delicious cookie recipe for the holidays! They look festive, taste incredible, and they’re a great addition to a holiday cookie platter.
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Why you’ll love this recipe
Flavor: Mint and chocolate in every bite!
Texture: Soft and chewy with crisp edges.
Ease: This is a basic recipe, no fancy techniques or equipment.
Versatile: Add one, two, or three different chocolate mint mix-ins.
No chill time: These cookies can be baked right away, no need to chill the dough.
Recipe overview
*Full recipe below in recipe card*
Prepare the cookie dough:
- Beat butter and sugars
- Add egg and peppermint extract
- Beat in flour, baking soda, and salt
- Stir in the mix-ins (more on this below)
Scoop and bake on parchment-lined baking sheets for about 10 minutes.
What type of mix-ins to use
The cookies pictured were made with a combination of mint chips, chocolate chips, and chopped Andes candies. You can use one, two, or all three. The cookie dough itself is also flavored with peppermint extract.
Note: The Andes candies are my favorite mix-in but they do melt while baking. They do not contain stabilizers like “chips” do.
Recipe tips
Butter should be softened but still cool to the touch.
To properly measure flour, spoon it into your measuring cup and level it off.
Add most of the mix-ins into the cookie dough but reserve some to press on top of the cookies either right before or right after baking (this makes for a prettier cookie).
Remove the cookies from the oven when they are still slightly under baked, they will firm up as they cool.
See the tips below for making your cookies perfectly round.
How to get perfectly round cookies
Option 1: Immediately after the cookies come out of the oven place a round glass, bowl, or cookie cutter (larger than the cookie) upside down over the top of the cookie. Gently swirl the glass/bowl/cookie cutter in a circular motion. The edges of the cookie will bump against the inside of the glass creating a perfectly round shape. Note: This only works when the cookies are hot, straight from the oven, and still on the warm baking sheet.
Option 2: Immediately after the cookies come out the oven use the back of a spoon to gently push the edges inward to create clean edges and a perfect round shape.
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Recipe
Mint Chocolate Chip Cookies
Ingredients
- 1⅔ cups all purpose flour, spooned into the measuring cups and leveled
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ½ cup unsalted butter , softened slightly but still cool
- ½ cup light brown sugar, packed
- ¼ cup granulated sugar
- 1 large egg
- ½ teaspoon pure peppermint extract
- 1½ cups mint chips, chocolate chips and/or chopped Andes candies, see note
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F. Line two baking sheets with parchment paper.
- In a small bowl combine flour, baking soda and salt. Set aside.
- In a large bowl, using a hand mixer or stand mixer, beat butter and both sugars for 1-2 minutes, scraping the bowl as needed. Add egg and peppermint extract and beat until combined.
- Slowly add the flour mixture, beating until just combined. Add 1 cup of mint chips/Andes/chocolate chips (the rest will be reserved for topping the cookies).
- Scoop 2-tablespoon portions of dough and place them a couple inches apart on the baking sheets.
- Bake the cookies for 9-11 minutes until the edges are just beginning to turn golden brown and the very center is still slightly underdone. Rotate the baking sheets halfway through cooking time, if necessary. See note about shaping cookies. While the cookies are still warm, use the remaining ½ cup mix-ins and nestle pieces into the tops of the cookies (this makes for a prettier cookie).
- Place the baking sheets on wire racks and allow the cookies to cool completely.
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Notes
Option 2: Immediately after the cookies come out the oven use the back of a spoon to gently push the edges inward to create clean edges and a perfect round shape.
*Recipe updated slightly November 2022.*Nutrition
Nutritional Information is an estimate based on third-party calculations and may vary based on products used and serving sizes.
Tried this recipe?Leave a comment and rating below!
Courtney
I LOVE these cookies! I couldn’t find any mint chips but wasn’t upset about it. I also added some green food coloring just for fun & they were a huge hit!
I also love this recipe for regular chocolate chip cookies! I just swap the peppermint extract for vanilla extract & obviously no Andes mints, & they are sooo yummy. Seriously the best tasting & looking cookies I’ve ever made. I also love that this recipe only makes around 2 dozen cookies instead of the normal 4-5 dozen from other recipes. Definitely making this my regular go to recipe!
Celebrating Sweets
I’m glad you enjoyed them! Thanks for taking the time to comment. 🙂
Tam
I love these cookies. Very easy to make. Not tooo sweet. Heavy on the brown sugar. The mint extract is subtle. Very good cookie.
Tam
I meant heavier on the brown sugar as opposed to white, which is my preference.
Celebrating Sweets
I’m glad you enjoyed them! Thanks for taking the time to comment. 🙂
Dalia
Hi, can you please send a link to where I can find mint (green not brown) chocolate chips?
Thanks
Allison
These are the ones I used: https://nuts.com/chocolatessweets/toppings/chips/mini-mint/1lb.html
Enjoy!
Kim
Do you use semi-sweet chocolate chips or milk chocolate?
Allison
I typically use semi-sweet, but either would be just fine.
Merie
I never write a review, however my husband requested me to bake him some mint chocolate chip cookies, I found this one (the picture looked pretty) and I made them after I ordered my chips from nuts.com, and this recipe is IT, the mic drop lol
Add to my collection
Allison
I’m glad you enjoyed them! Thanks for stopping by. 🙂
Shuggah
No lies. This recipe is the truth. ?
Kelly Gentz
Can you use a cake mix to make these cookies?
Allison
I have only made the recipe as written so I can’t say for sure. You’re welcome to play around with it. Enjoy!
Sharpay Evens
Next time when making a recipe please make sure to say to flatten the cookies because we didn’t know we were supposed to because it never said so. But otherwise the cookies were delicious and very easy to make.
Allison
I don’t flatten these cookies. The photos are from cookie dough balls that are not flattened.
Michael moore
the cookies is so good
Gail
Can you make these with chopped up candy canes
Allison
That would probably work, but they might melt in the oven.
Kate
These are the best cookies I have ever made. They turned out perfectly.
Allison
I’m so glad! Thanks for taking the time to comment. 🙂