Cake Mix Mint Chocolate Sandwich Cookies Recipes

CHOCOLATE MINT CAKE MIX COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Line baking sheets with parchment paper and set aside.
• In a bowl, stir together the cake mix, vegetable oil, and eggs until completely combined. Roll the dough into 1-inch balls. Place the balls on the prepared baking sheet.
• Bake the cookies for 8 minutes. Allow the cookies to cool for about 5 minutes before removing to a cooling rack.
• To prepare the frosting, beat the butter in the bowl of a stand mixer until creamy. Slowly beat in the powdered sugar one cup at a time. Add extract and milk, stirring until the buttercream has a spreadable consistency. Stir in the food coloring and fold in the chopped Andes Mints.
• Carefully spread frosting on the bottoms of half of the cookies; top with remaining cookies.

CHOCOLATE MINT CAKE MIX COOKIES

Steps:

• Combine cake mix, oil, and eggs in a mixing bowl or the bowl of an electric stand mixer and mix well. Stir in creme de menthe baking chips and white chocolate chips.
• Chill dough for 20 to 30 minutes.
• Form dough into 1- to 2-inch balls and place 2 inches apart on cookie sheets.
• Bake in the preheated oven until edges are set, 8 to 9 minutes.

CHOCOLATE MINT SANDWICH COOKIES

Steps:

• In a small saucepan, combine the butter, brown sugar, water and chocolate chips. Cook and stir over low heat until chips are melted. Cool. Beat in eggs and vanilla. Combine the flour, baking soda and salt; gradually add to chocolate mixture. , Drop by rounded teaspoonfuls 2 in. apart onto ungreased baking sheets. Bake at 350° until firm, 10-12 minutes. Remove to wire racks to cool. , In a large bowl, combine confectioners' sugar, butter, milk, extract, salt and, if desired, food coloring until smooth. Spread on the bottoms of half of the cookies; top with remaining cookies.

CHOCOLATE MINT SANDWICH COOKIES

Steps:

• For the cookies: Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper.
• In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, cocoa, salt and baking powder. In another large bowl using an electric mixer, beat the butter and granulated sugar on medium speed until fluffy, about 3 minutes. Add the yolks and beat until combined. Add the flour mixture to the butter mixture and beat until well combined. Divide the dough into 2 pieces.
• Lightly dust a piece of parchment with cocoa powder. Roll 1 piece of dough on the prepared parchment to between 1/4 inch and 1/8 inch thick. Using a 2 1/4-inch round, fluted cookie cutter, stamp out as many cookies as you can. Transfer the cookies to the prepared sheets. Roll and cut the remaining dough; you can reroll the scraps once. Chill the unbaked cookies for 10 to 15 minutes.
• Bake until the cookies are set and the tops look dry, 14 to 16 minutes, rotating the sheets halfway through cooking. Transfer the cookies to a rack to cool completely, about 45 minutes.
• For the filling: Beat the confectioners' sugar and butter with an electric mixer until smooth. Add just enough milk to make a creamy filling. Beat in the mint extract.
• When the cookies are cool, flip half of them over. Spread or pipe about 1 heaping tablespoon of the filling on the flipped cookies. Top with the other halves and press together gently.

CHOCOLATE SANDWICH COOKIES II

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Lightly grease cookie sheets.
• In a medium bowl, stir together the dark and light chocolate cake mix. Add the eggs and oil, mix until well blended. Roll dough into 2 inch balls, and place them onto the prepared cookie sheet. Flatten the balls slightly with the back of a spoon.
• Bake for 10 to 12 minutes in the preheated oven, until firm. Let cool on the baking sheet for a few minutes before removing to cool on wire racks.
• To make the filling, beat the cream cheese and confectioner' sugar together until smooth. Spread between two cooled cookies.

CHOCOLATE MINT SANDWICH COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
• Cookies: Combine brown sugar, butter and water in large, heavy-duty saucepan.
• Cook over med heat, stirring occasionally, until butter is melted.
• Add chocolate bits; cook, stirring for 1 to 2 minutes or until smooth.
• Remove from heat and cool.
• Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition.
• Stir in flour, baking soda and salt.
• Drop by rounded teaspoon onto ungreased baking sheets.
• Bake for 6 to 8 minutes or until edges are set.
• Cool on baking sheets for 1 minute;.
• Remove unto wire racks& cool.
• Filling: Beat confectioners sugar, 1/3 cup butter and mint extract in large mixer bowl.
• Add milk until smooth and of desired spreading consistency.
• Spread about 2 teaspoons filling onto flat side of 1 cookie; top with second cookie, flat side down.
• Squeeze together gently.

CAKE MIX CHOCOLATE-MINT COOKIES

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F. In large bowl, beat cake mix, brown sugar, eggs, oil, water and peppermint extract with electric mixer on medium speed until smooth. Stir in baking chips and chocolate chips.
• Onto ungreased cookie sheets, drop dough by tablespoonfuls 2 inches apart.
• Bake 10 to 12 minutes or until centers are set. Cool 2 minutes; remove from cookie sheets to cooling racks.

QUICK CHOCOLATE SANDWICH COOKIES

Steps:

• In a large bowl, combine the cake mixes, oil and eggs until well blended. Roll into 1-in. balls. Place 2 in. apart on ungreased baking sheets. Do not flatten. , Bake at 350° until set, 8-10 minutes. Cool for 5 minutes before removing to wire racks (cookies will flatten as they cool). , In a small bowl, beat cream cheese and butter until fluffy. Beat in sugar and vanilla until smooth. Spread or pipe filling on the bottoms of half of the cookies; top with remaining cookies. Store in the refrigerator.

PEPPERMINT-CHOCOLATE CAKE MIX SANDWICH COOKIES

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F. Line 2 cookie sheets with cooking parchment paper; set aside.
• In large bowl, mix cake mix, oil and eggs with electric mixer on low speed until soft dough forms. Scoop dough by level tablespoonfuls onto cookie sheets. Bake 8 to 10 minutes or until edges are set and slightly crispy. Cool 5 minutes on cookie sheets. Remove to cooling racks to cool completely.
• To make frosting, in large bowl, beat marshmallow creme and 1 cup butter with electric mixer on medium speed until smooth. Beat in powdered sugar and vanilla until smooth. Spoon 2 tablespoons frosting onto each of half of the cookies; top with remaining cookies.
• Roll edges of cookies in crushed peppermint candies.

MINT-CHOCOLATE SANDWICH COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees, with racks in upper and lower thirds. In a small bowl, whisk together flour and salt. In a medium bowl, using an electric mixer, beat butter and granulated sugar on high, scraping down bowl as needed, until light and fluffy, 4 minutes. Add vanilla and beat to combine. Add egg and beat to combine. With mixer on low, gradually add flour mixture and beat just until combined. Transfer dough to a quart-size zip-top bag; with scissors, snip a 3/4-inch hole in one corner (or use a pastry bag with a plain tip). Pipe 54 cookies (3/4 by 2 inches), 1/2 inch apart, onto two parchment-lined baking sheets. Chill until firm, 20 minutes.
• Bake until cookies are light golden at edges, about 15 minutes, rotating sheets halfway through. Transfer immediately to wire racks and let cool.
• Place chocolate in a medium heatproof bowl set over (not in) a saucepan of simmering water. Stir until melted, 2 minutes. Remove bowl from pan. (Alternatively, melt chocolate in microwave.) In another medium bowl, whisk together confectioners' sugar, peppermint extract, and 4 teaspoons water. With a small offset spatula or table knife, spread chocolate on flat side of half the cookies and mint glaze on the other half. Sandwich cookie halves together.

CAKE MIX COOKIE SANDWICHES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350.
• In a bowl mix together the cake mix, oil and eggs. Do this by hand as it is very stiff. You are looking for everything to just come together to form a dough.
• Roll dough into 1" balls. Place about 2" apart on an ungreased cookie sheet.
• Note: if dough is too sticky to roll into balls easily, refrigerate for a short time.
• Bake cookies 8 to 11 minutes at 350. Cookies should still be soft but the tops will have a cracked appearance when done.
• Remove cookies from baking sheets to cool.
• Allow to cool completely.
• Choose 2 cookies that are the same size and shape. Place about 1/2 to 1 teaspoon of frosting on the bottom of one cookie. Put the two cookies together bottoms facing each other to form the sandwich.
• Note: I like to use the following combinations, but feel free to experiment. Chocolate cookie with fudge frosting, chocolate cookie with vanilla frosting, white cake with vanilla frosting (add about 1/2 teaspoon of almond extract to the frosting), carrot cake cookies with chream cheese frosting, funfetti cookies with rainbow chip frosting (kids love this one for the colors).

GRASSHOPPER SANDWICH COOKIES RECIPE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
• Mix together cake mix, eggs and shortening until well combined. The dough will be pretty thick.
• Roll dough into 1-inch balls, making sure they are all similar in size.
• Place dough onto ungreased cookie sheet and bake for 8 minutes.
• Immediately transfer cookies to a cooking rack.
• To make the frosting, mix together butter, milk, powdered sugar, peppermint extract and as much green food coloring as desired (I used 8 drops) until smooth.
• Spread onto cooled cookies and sandwich together.

CHOCOLATE-MINT SANDWICH COOKIES

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350ºF.
• Beat cake mix, eggs and oil until blended; roll into 48 (1-inch) balls.
• Place, 2 inches apart, on parchment-covered baking sheets.
• Bake 8 min. or until centers are set. Cool on baking sheets 3 min. Remove to wire racks; cool completely.
• Beat cream cheese, extract and food coloring in large bowl with mixer until blended. Gradually add sugar, mixing well after each addition. Spoon into resealable plastic bag. Cut small piece off one bottom corner of bag; use to pipe about 1 Tbsp. cream cheese mixture onto bottom side of each of 24 cookies. Cover with remaining cookies, top sides up.