Want a super-easy Christmas cookie to make?
1 box chocolate cake mix
2 eggs (slightly beaten)
1/2 cup vegetable oil
enough small mint patty candies* to equal the number of cookies you're making
Preheat oven to 350F. Dump the first 3 ingredients into a medium size mixing bowl. Stir until well combined. Drop by rounded spoonfuls onto baking sheet lined with foil, leaving about an inch or so between to allow for spreadage. Bake 8-10 minutes or until not gooey in the center**. Remove from oven and immediately press a patty into the middle of each cookie. Let cool for a couple minutes then remove to your cooling-down location of choice. (I use paper towels.) Do NOT touch the patty part until it cools completely. Repeat until all the batter is used. Should make around 25-35 cookies, depending on how much batter you drop in each spoonful.
Note: You can also use Hersey kisses or little peanut butter cups instead of patties, if you're anti-mint. I'd recommend turning the peanut butter cups top down before you plant them in the cookies, but that's me.
*Not the big York ones. I use cheap Zachary brand ones I get at the Dollar General. They're about an inch in diameter, so perfect for the center of a cookie. And you get a couple dozen in a box, for like a buck, so win win.
** if you've made cookies before you probably know when that is. If you haven't, you might want to start with yellow cake mix and cook until lightly browned on the edges. At least until you get your cookie legs under you. Chocolate cake doesn't show the browning very well, doncha know.
Are you talking about the hard candy peppermints? The red and white swirls? Or something else? Yes, I'm confused. No, I haven't had enough coffee (or sleep!) Theese sound good if it's something other than the peppermint candies involved. LOL
ReplyDeleteOops. The chocolate mint patties, like York only smaller.
DeleteOh, yum! They sound so good! And simple enough even I can't mess them up (too much ;-) ).
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