Chocolate Mint Marble Cookies Food

CHOCOLATE-MINT MARBLE COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Line a baking sheet with a silicone baking mat or parchment paper.
• Put 1 3/4 cups sugar, butter, cream cheese, baking powder, salt, and peppermint and vanilla extracts in a bowl. Cream together with a mixer until well blended, 2 or 3 minutes. Mix in egg until incorporated. Add 2 cups of the flour; mix on low speed until incorporated, 2 to 3 minutes (dough will be very soft).
• Divide dough roughly in half and transfer one half to another bowl. Mix in food coloring, if using, and remaining 1/2 cup flour into one half of dough. Mix cocoa powder into other half. Place 1/2 cup sugar in a small bowl.
• Pinch off about 1 teaspoon of green dough and roll into a small ball; repeat with remaining green dough. Do the same with chocolate dough. To make each cookie, line up 4 small balls of dough in a row, alternating colors: green, chocolate, green, chocolate. Squish the 4 small dough balls together and roll lightly into 1 big ball. Roll in sugar; set on prepared baking sheet, leaving 2 inches between cookies. Repeat with remaining dough.
• Bake until cookie edges start to turn golden brown, 13 to 15 minutes. Cool on baking sheet 10 minutes. Transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.

MINT CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES

Steps:

• Heat over to 375 degrees F.
• Beat butter, granulated sugar, brown sugar, vanilla and salt in a large bowl until creamy.
• Add eggs; beat well.
• Stir together flour, cocoa and baking soda.
• Gradually add flour mixture to butter mixture beating until well blended.
• Add chocolate chips to batter.
• Drop by rounded teaspoons onto an ungreased cookie sheet.
• Bake 8 to 10 minutes or until set. Cool slightly; remove from cookie sheet to wire rack.
• Cool completely.

CHOCOLATE MARBLE COOKIES

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F. Lightly spray 2 large cookie sheets with cooking spray.
• In large bowl stir cookie mix, butter, egg, water and vanilla until soft dough forms. Cover, and refrigerate until firm; about 30 minutes.
• Divide dough in half. Stir melted chocolate into 1 half of dough. Shape about 1/2 teaspoon each of chocolate and white dough into 1-inch ball of marbled dough. Place about 1 inch apart on prepared cookie sheet. Press bottom of glass into dough to grease, then dip into granulated sugar; press on shaped dough until about 1/4 inch thick.
• Bake 8 to 11 minutes or until set and edges just begin to brown. Cool 1 minute; remove from cookie sheets to wire rack.

MARBLED MINT-CHOCOLATE PUDDING

Steps:

• Place white chocolate and mint extract in a small bowl. Bring cream to a simmer in a small saucepan over medium heat.
• Meanwhile, whisk salt into egg yolks in a medium bowl. Gradually whisk hot cream into egg mixture until incorporated. Return to saucepan; cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until custard is thick enough to coat spoon, about 4 minutes. (Scrape bottom of saucepan while you stir to keep eggs from curdling.) Pour custard over white chocolate; let sit a minute or two. Stir until chocolate is melted and mixture is smooth.
• Place chocolate in a small bowl. Bring cream and milk to a simmer in a small saucepan over medium heat.
• Meanwhile, whisk sugar and salt into egg yolks in a medium bowl. Gradually whisk hot cream mixture into egg mixture until incorporated. Return to saucepan; cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until custard is thick enough to coat spoon, about 4 minutes. (Scrape bottom of saucepan while you stir to keep eggs from curdling.) Pour custard over chocolate; let sit a minute or two. Stir until chocolate is melted and mixture is smooth.
• Spoon a little chocolate custard into small glasses, then top with a little mint custard. Repeat layering until custard is evenly divided among glasses. Swirl with a skewer or the tip of a thin knife to marble, making sure to extend all the way to the sides of the glass. Let chill until cold, at least 2 hours.
• Serve pudding topped with cookies.
• Do ahead: Pudding can be made 3 days ahead. Cover and keep chilled.

DOUBLE CHOCOLATE AND MINT COOKIES

Steps:

• Place 1 oven rack in the center of the oven and 1 oven rack in the bottom third and preheat the oven to 300 degrees F. Line 2 large rimmed baking sheets with parchment paper. Set aside.
• In a small bowl, combine the bittersweet chocolate and butter. Place the bowl over a pan of barely simmering water and stir occasionally until the chocolate has melted and the mixture is smooth.
• In a medium bowl, sift the flour, cocoa, baking powder and salt. In a large bowl, whisk together the sugar, eggs, 2 tablespoons water and vanilla extract. Gradually add the dry ingredients. Fold in the cooled chocolate. Stir in the chocolate mint pieces. Chill the dough 10 minutes to firm slightly. Using 1/4 cup measuring cup, drop 6 mounds of batter onto each prepared sheet, spacing evenly apart.
• Bake the cookies 9 minutes. Reverse the baking sheets (top to bottom) and continue baking until the cookies are slightly puffed and dry looking with some small cracks on top, 9 to 10 minutes longer. Cool the cookies completely on sheets (they may deflate slightly as they cool).

NANA'S CHOCOLATE MINT MARBLE CAKE

Steps:

• Grease and flour an 8" cake tin, set oven at 200degC (400degF).
• Sift flour and salt, divide into halves.
• Cream butter and sugar until light; add eggs separately, beating well, divide.
• To one bowl add flour, cocoa mixture and fold gently.
• Fold remaining flour and peppermint essence into other bowl.
• Spoon half white mixture into prepared tin, top with chocolate mixture and then remaining white, smooth top and run knife through in a figure eight.
• Bake 50 minutes.
• Icing; Melt chopped chocolate over pan of hot water(or very low in microwave), add cold water, butter and icing sugar and stir until smooth and glossy - use immediately.