Happy Thanksgiving! I hope you all have some great food this holiday season, because besides the sleeping and being with family - that is the best part! So I started my holiday eating festivities a little early, but I promise I didn't go too crazy! This recipe is a great theme for this wonderful holiday season, it is warm and melty at the same time. I tried to use a classic recipe and then add in my little twist... and surprisingly, it worked! A lot of holiday season cookies call for peppermint extract or some sort of weird things that you can really only use once a year at max... my twist was something you can find year round and I know my family would eat even if it wasn't the holiday season.
Ingredients:
2 2/3 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 cup white sugar
3/4 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup melted/liquidy butter
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon baking power
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
a HUGE handful of chocolate chip (whichever kind you want, I happened to use semi-sweet)
a HUGE handful of mint M&M's
*you might need a little milk to make the dough a little firmer, but definitely eyeball how much you'll need - I used about 2 teaspoons*
Preheat your oven to 350F and while that is going, get your butter in a bowl and throw it in the microwave to melt it down a little. In a large bowl, add your two types of sugar and then slowly start to add in your butter. Add in the vanilla extract.. and first, take a second to smell the mixture because that is actually liquid gold - I wish you could just eat that smell. Then add in your baking soda, and baking powder. Mix all that together and then start adding in your flour. After adding about half of it, make a judgement call on whether or not you are going to need the milk or not. Then continue adding in the flour. Once its all added, make another judgement call whether you need milk - you do not want a runny dough - these are cookies not cupcakes. But you want a dough you can play with in your hands without it being rock hard.
Once everything is mixed in to your liking, add in the chocolate chips. Feel free to break up the m&ms whether you use a spoon to just mash them around or throw them in a food processor really quick. Throw them into the mix - before you start making your balls for your cookies make sure your cookie sheet is greased!!!! Grab a glob of dough and go to town, make them as big or as small as you want for these cookies... just make sure you have enough chocolate and mint in each one :)
Set them in your oven at 350, for about 8-10 minutes - make sure to check on them! If you want gooey cookies, pull them out at around 8-8 1/2 minutes.. for crispier ones, wait until the 9 minute mark and then leave them out on a rack to crisp up.
Ingredients:
2 2/3 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 cup white sugar
3/4 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup melted/liquidy butter
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon baking power
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
a HUGE handful of chocolate chip (whichever kind you want, I happened to use semi-sweet)
a HUGE handful of mint M&M's
*you might need a little milk to make the dough a little firmer, but definitely eyeball how much you'll need - I used about 2 teaspoons*
Preheat your oven to 350F and while that is going, get your butter in a bowl and throw it in the microwave to melt it down a little. In a large bowl, add your two types of sugar and then slowly start to add in your butter. Add in the vanilla extract.. and first, take a second to smell the mixture because that is actually liquid gold - I wish you could just eat that smell. Then add in your baking soda, and baking powder. Mix all that together and then start adding in your flour. After adding about half of it, make a judgement call on whether or not you are going to need the milk or not. Then continue adding in the flour. Once its all added, make another judgement call whether you need milk - you do not want a runny dough - these are cookies not cupcakes. But you want a dough you can play with in your hands without it being rock hard.
Once everything is mixed in to your liking, add in the chocolate chips. Feel free to break up the m&ms whether you use a spoon to just mash them around or throw them in a food processor really quick. Throw them into the mix - before you start making your balls for your cookies make sure your cookie sheet is greased!!!! Grab a glob of dough and go to town, make them as big or as small as you want for these cookies... just make sure you have enough chocolate and mint in each one :)Set them in your oven at 350, for about 8-10 minutes - make sure to check on them! If you want gooey cookies, pull them out at around 8-8 1/2 minutes.. for crispier ones, wait until the 9 minute mark and then leave them out on a rack to crisp up.
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