Start here to find
Christmas Cookie Recipes
Recipes and baking tips; all you need for the most memorable Christmas cookies ever. Over 570 recipes and counting! Browse our collection of scrumptious modern and traditional Christmas cookie recipes.
Type in Recipe name or ingredient to search.
Chocolate Lovers’ Dream Cookies
-
4.3 stars stars based on 3 reviews - 100% would make this again
Review this recipe 
Read reviews
- Tweet
Send to a friend
Print recipe
from Coming Home with Gooseberry Patch
Makes about 18
1 cup butter, softened
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar, packed
2/3 cup baking cocoa
1-1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
3 eggs
2 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 cups all-purpose flour
In a large bowl, with an electric mixer on low speed, blend butter, sugars, cocoa, baking powder and baking soda. Add eggs and vanilla. Beat in as much flour as possible; stir in any remaining flour. Cover; chill at least 2 hours. Form into 1-1/2 inch balls; place 2 inches apart on ungreased baking sheet. Bake at 375 degrees for 8 to 10 minutes. Let stand one minute on baking sheet; remove to wire racks to cool. Spread filling on flat side of half the cookies; press on remaining cookies to make sandwiches. Spread tops with glaze; place on a wire rack until glaze sets. Wrap each sandwich in plastic wrap. Keep chilled. Makes 1-1/2 dozen.
Filling:
1/3 cup butter, softened
3 tablespoons green crème de menthe
4 cups powdered sugar
Mix butter and crème de menthe in a medium bowl. With an electric mixer on low speed, gradually beat in powdered sugar, adding a little more crème de menthe if necessary until spreadable.
Glaze:
6 (1-ounce) squares semi-sweet baking chocolate, chopped
1/3 cup whipping cream
Cook and stir chocolate and cream in a medium saucepan over low heat until melted. Remove from heat; let stand 20 minutes, until slightly thickened.
Note:
A Gooseberry Patch Exclusive...
Our brand new Coming Home with Gooseberry Patch cookbook is filled with fresh, full-color photographs, more than 145 delicious recipes and inspiring ideas that bring family, friends & neighbors together. Enjoy chapters like Sunday Dinner that'll take readers back to Grandma's house, a Recipe Swap with friends and Gifts for Giving...homemade and from the heart. Home holds a place like no other! Hardcover cookbook with dust jacket, 160 pages. (9" x 8") Order now...
Reviews of Chocolate Lovers’ Dream Cookies:
1-3 of 3 reviews
A cookie baker Dec 10, 2010
Would make this again.
The filling recipe either had too much sugar or not enough butter. After adding 3 cups of powder sugar, it was already balled up and unspreadable. I added more butter and more creme de minthe to thin it out. something was missing from the recipe 3 stars
A cookie baker Dec 22, 2007
Would make this again.
Very nice recipe. There was something missing in the filling, so I added a little milk and that seemed to do the trick. My daughter and I just finished making them for Christmas and had a lot of fun. 5 stars
Cookie Lover Dec 17, 2007
Would make this again.
Yummy! I am a chocolate-mint lover, and these taste as good as they look. Would definitely make these again. 5 stars
Submit a recipe!
Share your original or adapted recipe