Chocolate Mint Frosted Drop Cookies

                                                                             

These are a great cookie! Soft Chocolate Mint Drop Cookies,with a Chocolate Mint Frosting that tastes like Ice Cream & then topped with Pastel Mint Candies! 

COOKIES:

3 & 1/2 Cup Flour

4 Tablespoons Cocoa

1 Cup Softened Butter

2 Cups Sugar

4 One Ounce Squares Unsweetened Baking Chocolate Melted & cooled

2 Eggs

1 & 1/2 Cups Buttermilk

2 Teaspoons Pure Mint Extract

Beat butter, add sugar the cooled chocolate & beat again. Now add eggs & beat again. Sift all the dry ingredients together. Stir the mint extract & buttermilk together. Now add about 1/3 of your dry ingredients to your butter mixture & beat. Now add 1/3 of the buttermilk, mint mixture & beat again. Continue alternating ending with your dry ingredients & beating until well blended. Chill your dough. When ready to bake drop by using heaping tablespoons of dough onto your baking sheets leaving plenty of room  for them to bake, I do about 9 cookies per sheet. Bake in a preheated oven of 400 degrees for 8 to 9 minutes! Remove from sheets & let cool. Once cool frost with the following frosting!

FROSTING:

8 Tablespoons of Softened Butter

3 Cups of cooled melted sweet or semi sweet Chocolate, I used Milk Chocolate Wilbur Melting Wafers!

1 Teaspoon Pure Mint Extract

3 Cups Powdered Sugar

Dash of Salt

1/2 to 3/4 Cup Light Cream or !/2 & 1/2

Beat butter & chocolate together, add a little of sugar, salt, mint extract & little of the cream & beat. Ad sugar & cream a little at a time until frosting is incorporated & the consistency you desire! Frost cookies like in the picture & decorate with candy  I used Pastel Mint Candies! Store in an airtight container with wax paper between the layers! Makes about 5 dozen big cookies!