These Andes Chocolate Mint Cookies are the perfect Christmas cookie. This easy four ingredient dessert, drizzled in melty chocolate with a delicious Andes mint center, is a kid friendly holiday favorite that you and your family are sure to enjoy.
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What are Andes Mints?
Andes mints were an invention by Andrew “Andy” Kanelos, who opened a candy shop in 1921. The mints themselves were first released in the 1950s, and consist of a layer of creme de menthe, or mint creme, in between two layers of chocolate.
These easily-recognizable mints sport green foil wrappers, and are commonly eaten as after-dinner mints. Look for Andes chocolate mints easily at any grocery store.
Why This Andes Mint Cookies Recipe is a Keeper
If you love mint, this easy recipe is for you! Use regular Andes mints to add a delicious minty freshness to these soft and chewy chocolate cookies in this amazing recipe.
- 10 Minute Prep: Make these cookies in just ten minutes. A sugar cookie mix will give you everything you need to make the cookie dough except for a few additional ingredients. Just add room-temperature butter and an egg.
- Easy Ingredients: Only 4 simple ingredients for this Andes mint cookie recipe. Just mix, drop and bake for a chewy, delicious cookie.
- Adaptable: You can make this recipe with different cookie mixes, or with Andes mint pieces, just follow the recipe below.
If you’re looking for more cookie recipes, try these Blueberry Lemon Cookies, Sugar Cookies with Hershey’s Kisses, and Oreo Mint Truffles.
Can I Use a Different Candy?
This chocolate chip cookie recipe is highly adaptable, so you can use any candy you’d like. Andes mints work well because they’re small, flat, and melt easily.
Ingredient Notes to Make Andes Mint Cookies
The ingredients for these 10-minute minty chocolate cookies are extremely simple. Great for the holidays, but can make any time!
- Sugar Cookie Mix: This has all the dry ingredients in the package, such as flour, salt, and baking soda, baking powder etc. You can also use a refrigerated premade cookie dough.
See the recipe card below for a complete list of the ingredients with measurements.
Variations and Substitutions to Love these Andes Mint Cookies
These easy Andes mint cookies are easily adaptable. Here are some tips to help you put your own spin on them:
- Bars: If you’d like, shape these cookies into chocolate bars.
- Chocolate Chips: Add chocolate chips or melts into the dough.
- Homemade Cookie Dough: Use homemade cookie dough instead of store bought mix.
- Double Chocolate: Use a chocolate cookie dough to make cookies are soft and delicious.
- Candy: If you can not find andes chocolate mints, then use andes pieces or thin mints to make andes cookies. Or melt andes mints on top. Mint Chocolate cookies are soft and chewy.
- Mint Extract: Use a little peppermint extract to the cookie dough. These cookies are easy and the cookies are really good.
How to Make Andes Chocolate Mint Cookies
These mint cookies don’t take too long to make, and are perfect for the holiday season. These cookies are amazing.
These are the basic steps for making Andes chocolate mint cookies. Refer to the full, printable recipe card below for detailed instructions.
STEP 1: Prep
First, preheat oven and prepare the baking sheet by adding parchment paper or a silicone cookie mat.
STEP 2: Dough
Prepare the cookie mixture according to package directions. Wrap in plastic wrap and chill for at least 15 minutes.
STEP 3: Bake
Flatten one tablespoon of the chilled cookie dough into a disc. Press an Andes mint candy in the center and wrap the dough around the candy until it’s completely covered with cookie dough. Place on baking sheets with parchment paper or silicone baking mat, 2 inches apart, and bake for 7-9 minutes, or until cookies are set. Transfer cookies to a cooling rack. Store cooled cookies in an airtight container.
Step 4: Decorate the Mint Chocolate Chip Cookies
Meanwhile, melt the chocolate chips in a microwave. Stir every 15 seconds. Drizzle the melted chocolate over the top of the cookies.
Recipe FAQs
Expert Tips for Making This Delicious Chocolate Cookie Recipe
- Add Nuts: Add some walnuts or pecans to the cookies.
- Short cut tip: Use chopped Andes mints in the cookies,
- Variation tip: Try adding food coloring to make the cookies green.
- Alternate ingredient: A few drops of peppermint extract will ad a minty flavor to the cookies. For even more mint, use Andes crème de menthe baking chips.
- Alternate cooking method tip: Bake the cookies in the air fryer. Cook at 350 degrees for 7 minutes. It won’t affect the texture or taste.
- Make your own Dough: Have time? Make your own. It’s easy and super tasty.
What to Serve with Andes Mint Chocolate Cookies
Andes Mint Chocolate Cookies
Ingredients
- 17.5 ounces Sugar cookie mix, Plus ingredients to make cookies
- 45 Andes mint candies, unwrapped
- ½ cup Chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
- Prepare the cookie mix according to package directions. Wrap in plastic wrap and chill for at least 15 minutes.
- Flatten one tablespoon of the chilled cookie dough into a disc. Place the mint candy in the center and wrap the dough around the candy until it’s completely covered with cookie dough.
- Place on a baking sheet, 2 inches apart, and bake for 7-9 minutes, or until cookies are set.
- Allow to cook for 2 minuets before removing to a cooling rack to finish cooling.
- While the cookies are cooling, melt the chocolate chips in the microwave, stirring every 15 seconds.
- Drizzle melted chocolate over the tops of the cookies.
- Pat a scant tablespoonful of dough in a thin layer around each mint candy. Place 2 in. apart on ungreased baking sheets. Bake at 375° for 7-9 minutes or until set. Cool for 1 minute before removing from pans to wire racks to cool completely.
- In a microwave-safe bowl, melt candy coating; stir until smooth. Drizzle over cookies.
Expert Tips
- Add Nuts: Try adding some walnuts or pecans to the cookies.
- Short cut tip: Use the Andes chips in the cookies,
- Variation tip: Try adding food coloring to make the cookies green.
- Alternate ingredient:: A few drops of mint extract really ups the minty flavor.
- Alternate cooking method tip: Bake the cookies in the air fryer. Cook at 350 degrees for 7 minutes. It does not effect the texture or taste.
cool! Did you cookies get a photo shoot like a real life famous person??? They look like cookie models!!!
They sure did! The TOH bakers, whipped up a batch and then their food stylists made them look gorgeous for their photo close up! Mine definitely don’t look that perfect! 🙂
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YUM! Thanks for linking up Tip Day Thursday. Please feel free to link up anytime. I can’t wait to see what else you’ve got up your sleeve.
Wendy
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wow, that’s great—congratulations! also, thanks for sharing it with us, i think its something i can do especially for beginners like me…looks yummy! have a great week! 🙂
Thanks for coming back today and linking these up to the party! 🙂
Vanessa
These look so pretty and delicious!
It is still a dream of mine to have a food I cooked be published in a magazine. Congratulations!
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Happy weekends!
Your candy sounds delicious. It is a treat to have your recipe appear in their magazines. I hope you have a great day. Blessings…Mary
I love anything minty so those sound delicious! I hope you will consider coming back on Saturday and linking up to our Cookie Exchange! Thanks so much for joining Inspiration Friday this week!
Vanessa
Beautiful! I love mint cookies!
love anything mint, and these are so pretty!
I haven’t try mint cookies but it’s look yummy
Noobfoodie
These look yummy! How fun it was published!
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That is a great cookie recipe, I can see why it was published. Thank you for sharing and you have a wonderful week end!
pretty darn cool! this is a great recipe and perfect for christmas treats.thank you for sharing with tuesday night supper club
How exciting!! Love the tried and true recipes 🙂 These cookies look like the perfect accompaniment to a cup of hot cocoa!!
Hi christina, no matter how long ago it happened, getting a recipe published is an awesome culinary feet! I thank you for linking this to the hearth and soul hop this week, but could you please place a link back to the hop so more folks can share in the fun? Thanks so much. Alex
Thanks for the kind words, Alex! I wanted to let you know that there is a link back to A Moderate Life in my blog roll (it’s the first link there). I just checked my stats and it seems like quite a few people have clicked back to your blog from It’s A Keeper. Thanks for hosting such a fun blog hop! Christina
Wow. I recipe I think I could actually make! I hope you have more successful recipes published.
How fun to have it be in a magazine! They sure look yummy in the picture. Thanks for giving us a heads up for Valentines Day, it will come fast and these cookies would be perfect.
Thanks for linking up to Making Your Home Sing Monday!
Congrats on being in the magazine! This looks super yummy.
Thanks, Lindsey!
Too cool! It’s so amazing that one of your originals was published in a National Magazine! Wait til your next cookbook comes out!