Chocolate Mint Sugar Cookies Made With Fresh Picked Mint

                                                                         

Delicious Chocolate Sugar Cookies with fresh mint. So yummy!If you do not have fresh mint substitute with 2 teaspoons of peppermint extract!

1 Cup Softened Butter

1 Cup Granulated Sugar

1 Cup Powdered Sugar

1 Cup Vegetable Oil

1 Cup Fresh Picked Mint Leaves

2 TBS Vegetable Oil

2 Large Eggs

2 TSP Vanilla + 2 TSP Peppermint Extract if you do not have the Fresh Mint Leaves

4 Cups Flour

1/2 Cup Cocoa I used Hershey Extra Dark Special

1 TSP Salt

1 TSP Baking Soda

1 TSP Cream Of Tartar

White Sanding Sugar

Beat the Butter fluffy then add the sugars & beat again. In a food processor puree the mint leaves that you washed & de-stemmed with the 2 TBS of Oil. Now add them & the 1 Cup Oil to the butter mixture. Beat in eggs & extract. Stir the remaining dry ingredients together & slowly beat them into the butter mixture. DO NOT CHILL THE DOUGH! Lightly spray your baking sheets & preheat oven to 375 degrees. Drop by tablespoon fulls onto prepared sheets. Lightly press down & pat with fingers to tidy the edges into circles, that is easy the dough responds quickly & does not stick to your fingers or a spoon. Now sprinkle with the sanding sugar as much as you like. Bake ten to 12 minutes, This makes 6 dozen big chocolate & minty delicious beautiful cookies!