Chocolate Mint Cookies

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 cups packed brown sugar
• 3/4 cup butter
• 2 tablespoons water
• 2 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips
• 2 eggs
• 56 Andes mints candies (2 boxes)
• 2 1/2 cups flour
• 1 1/4 teaspoons baking soda

Directions

1. 1

   Mix in a sauce pan -- brown sugar, butter & water until melted, add chocolate chips and melt.

2. 2

   Once melted, remove from heat & cool in a mixing bowl (about 10 min.).

3. 3

   Beat eggs, 1 at a time, into mixture.

4. 4

   Separately, mix together flour & baking soda.

5. 5

   Gradually add the dry ingredients to melted mixture.

6. 6

   Cover & chill for 1 hour.

7. 7

   Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

8. 8

   Shape dough into balls, bake on tinfoiled pan/parchment paper for 12-13 minutes or until they look puffy and cracked.

9. 9

   Immediately put 1/2 one Andes mint on top of cooked cookie, before it has totally cooled.

10. 10

    Once the mint melts, swirl around on cookie.