Refrigerated cookie dough mixed with chopped mint-chocolate candies forms this easy cookie, topped with pretty green frosting and candy garnish.
Mint Candy-Filled Cookies
- Prep Time 1 hr 25 min
- Total 1 hr 25 min
- Ingredients 7
- Servings 48
Ingredients
Cookies
- 1 roll (16.5 oz) refrigerated Pillsbury™ Sugar Cookie Dough
- 3/4 cup chopped unwrapped thin rectangular créme de menthe candies
Frosting
- 2 1/4 cups powdered sugar
- 1/4 cup butter or margarine, softened
- 1 to 2 drops green food color, if desired
- 2 to 3 tablespoons milk
Garnish
- 24 thin rectangular créme de menthe candies, unwrapped
Instructions
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Step1Heat oven to 350°F. In medium bowl, break up cookie dough. Stir or knead in 3/4 cup chopped candies. Shape teaspoons of dough into balls; place 1 inch apart on ungreased cookie sheets.
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Step2Bake 9 to 11 minutes or until set and edges are light golden brown. Cool 1 minute; remove from cookie sheets. Cool completely, about 15 minutes.
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Step3In small bowl, mix frosting ingredients until smooth, adding enough milk 1 teaspoon at a time until desired spreading consistency. Spread 1 teaspoon frosting on each cooled cookie. Cut each créme de menthe candy in half crosswise; cut each half diagonally into 2 triangles. Garnish each cookie with 2 candy triangles to form a tree.
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Nutrition
90
Calories
3g
Total Fat
0g
Protein
14g
Total Carbohydrate
11g
Sugars
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 1 Cookie
- Calories
- 90
- Calories from Fat
- 25
- Total Fat
- 3g
- 5%
- Saturated Fat
- 1g
- 6%
- Trans Fat
- 1/2g
- Cholesterol
- 5mg
- 2%
- Sodium
- 40mg
- 2%
- Potassium
- 0mg
- 0%
- Total Carbohydrate
- 14g
- 5%
- Dietary Fiber
- 0g
- 0%
- Sugars
- 11g
- Protein
- 0g
% Daily Value*:
- Vitamin A
- 0%
- 0%
- Vitamin C
- 0%
- 0%
- Calcium
- 0%
- 0%
- Iron
- 0%
- 0%
Exchanges:
0 Starch; 0 Fruit; 1 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 0 Vegetable; 0 Very Lean Meat; 0 Lean Meat; 0 High-Fat Meat; 1/2 Fat;Carbohydrate Choice
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