Mint Chocolate Chip Meringues

March 25, 2014 Leave a Comment

 

Mint Chocolate Chip Meringues

Mint Chocolate Chip Meringues

This recipe, Mint Chocolate Chip Meringues is from Diabetic Connect.  Whenever my son is with me when I go food shopping, he always buys Chocolate Meringues.  So he will be my ginny pig…I hope he will like them.

Mint Chocolate Chip Meringues Recipe

Mint Chocolate Chip Meringues

3 egg whites

1-4 tsp. cream of tartar

Pinch of salt

¾ cup sugar

3 Tbsp. unsweetened or Dutch process cocoa

1/3 cup mini chocolate chips

¾ tsp. mint or peppermint extract

 

Preheat the oven to 250 F.  Cover a baking sheet with parchment paper.

Beat the egg whites, cream of tartar and salt with an electric mixer on high until foamy.  Combine the sugar and cocoa.  Gradually add the cocoa mixture to the egg whites, and beat until stiff peaks form.  Gently fold in the chocolate chips and mint extract.

Spoon the mixture into a pastry bag fitted with a ½ inch round tip.  Pipe 30 cookies, ¼ inch apart on prepared baking sheet.

Bake in cookies for 1 ½ hours.  Turn the oven off, and let the cookies cool in the oven for 1 hour.  Store in a tightly sealed container.

 

(Recipe for Mint Chocolate Chip Meringues came from Diabetic Connect, 2014)

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Peppermint Stick Cookies Recipe

December 8, 2012 Leave a Comment

Peppermint Stick Cookies

Recipe provided courtesy of Taste of Home magazine.  Find more great recipes at www.tasteofhome.com

 

I tore this recipe out of a magazine many years ago.  With their cool mint flavor and festive look, these whimsical creations will make you feel like you’re at the North Pole.  The chilled dough is easy to shape, too.

Nancy Knapke                                                                                   Fort Recovery, Ohio

Peppermint Stick Cookies Recipe

Peppermint Stick Cookies

1 cup unsalted butter, softened

1 cup sugar

1 egg

2 tsp. mint extract

½ tsp. vanilla

2 ¾ cups all-purpose flour

½ tsp. salt

12 drops red food coloring

12 drops green food coloring

1 ½ cups white baking chips

Crushed mint candy

In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy.  Beat in egg and extracts.  Combine flour and salt; gradually add to the creamed mixture and mix well.

Set aside half of the dough.  Divide remaining dough half; add green food coloring to one portion and red food coloring to the other.  Wrap dough separately in plastic wrap.  Refrigerate for 1-2 hours or until easy to handle.

Divide green and red dough into 24 portions each.  Roll Divide plain dough into 48 portions.  Roll each into a 4 inch rope.  Place each green rope next to white rope; press together gently and twist.  Repeat with red ropes and remaining white ropes.  Place 2 inches apart on ungreased baking sheets.

Bake at 350 F. for 10-12 minutes or until set.  Cool for 2 minutes before carefully removing from pans to wire racks to cool completely.

In a microwave, melt white chips; stir until smooth.  Dip cookie ends into melted chips; allow excess to drip off.  Sprinkle with crushed candies and place on waxed paper.  Let stand until set.  Store in an airtight container.

(Recipe for Peppermint Stick Cookies was in Taste of Home Best Loved Cookies & Candies, December 31, 2012 issue)

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Mint Chocolate Stars Recipe

September 12, 2012 Leave a Comment

Mint Chocolate Stars

Your guests will enjoy these perfect after-dinner mints, “Mint Chocolate Stars”.  Bring them out with your dessert…have coffee and tea…and these mint chocolate stars.

Mint Chocolate Stars Recipe

Mint Chocolate Stars

6 oz. chocolate-flavored candy coating, cut into pieces

6 oz. (1 cup) milk chocolate chips

¼ cup dairy sour cream, room temperature

¼ tsp. mint extract

12 spearmint leaf gumdrops candies, cut into fourths

 

Line cookie sheets with waxed paper.  In a small saucepan, melt chocolate-flavored candy coating and milk chocolate chips over low heat; stirring constantly.  Remove from heat; whisk in sour cream and mint extract.  Fill pastry bag with chocolate mixture and fit with star tip.  Pipe chocolate mixture into 1 inch stars on waxed paper-lined cookie sheets.  Garnish top of each candy with spearmint gumdrop piece.  Refrigerate until candy is set.   4 dozen candies.

(Recipe for the Mint Chocolate Stars was in Pillsbury Classic Cookbook; Chocolate Lovers IV, Anytime Treats, Brownies Galore, Irresistible Desserts; February 1990, page 85)

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