Double Mint Chocolate Cookies

I know, it's non fifty-fifty Dec 1st together with I'm baking Christmas cookies. But who says mint-chocolate can't last delicious inward November? No one. These cookies are 1 of my dig-through-the-pantry efforts that turned out to last a winner. No thing the fourth dimension of year. 

I started amongst Jell-O Candy Cane Pudding Mix, together with thence crunched upwardly a (well-preserved) box of Thin Mints to deepen the minty season together with add together texture. I stirred inward a picayune Hershey's cocoa pulverisation to deliver the chocolatey richness I craved, together with used self-rising flour thence the cookies would convey a cakey texture. I rolled the dough into perfect picayune balls, shoved them inward the oven, together with hoped for the best. 

I didn't allow myself down.

These cookie are divine. They're thence soft they should last called a "cakie" instead of a cookie. The mint season isn't equally overwhelming as, say, a York Peppermint Patty. But it's potent plenty to deliver the coolness that contrasts thence beautifully amongst the depth of chocolate. 

Double Mint Chocolate Cookies

What You Need
2 ¼ cups self-rising flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 loving cup butter, softened
¾ cup packed brownish sugar
¼ cup white sugar
1 packet instant candy cane pudding mix
2 eggs
2 Tbsp cocoa powder
14 Thin Mints, crumbled*

*Not a Thin Mint hoarder similar me? Try Mint Oreos.

Put It All Together

1. Preheat the oven to 350°F. 
2. Use a mixer to cream the butter, brownish sugar, together with white carbohydrate inward a large bowl. Add the pudding mix, together with compaction until incorporated completely. Mix inward the eggs together with vanilla.
3. Combine the flour together with baking soda, together with thence add together to the butter mixture. Blend thoroughly.
4. Stir inward the crushed cookies amongst a wooden spoon. (Don't role the mixer. It volition compaction them.) 
5. Roll dough into 1" balls, together with lay them at at to the lowest degree two inches apart on a cookie canvass covered inward parchment newspaper (or an ungreased cookie sheet). Bake for 10-12 minutes.