Chocolate Mint Cookies

Total Time: 42 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 12 mins

Ingredients

• 3/4 cup butter, room temperature
• 1 cup icing sugar
• 6 tablespoons cocoa powder
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 egg yolk
• 1 tablespoon milk
• 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/8 teaspoon salt
• 1/8 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 egg
• 1 3/4 cups icing sugar, sifted
• 2 -3 drops peppermint extract

Recipe

• 1 beat butter until smooth and fluffy.
• 2 sift together icing sugar and cocoa powder over butter and beat in.
• 3 stir in vanilla, egg yolk (be sure to reserve egg for filling), and milk.
• 4 add flour, salt and baking powder to cocoa mixture and blend until incorporated.
• 5 shape dough into a disc, wrap and chill for 20 minutes.
• 6 preheat oven to 325.
• 7 on a surface lightly dusted with icing sugar, roll out the dough to 1/8 inch thick.
• 8 cut dough into 1 1/2 inch circles and transfer carefully to a parchment lined baking sheet.
• 9 bake 12-15 minutes until cookies can be lifted away from parchment easily.
• 10 allow to cool on baking sheet
• 11 for filling;.
• 12 put egg in a bowl and beat in icing sugar a few tablespoons at a time until a soft dough forms.
• 13 turn dough out onto a surfact dusted with icing sugar. knead in remaining icing sugar and peppermint extract until dough is no longer sticky.
• 14 to fill cookieds, roll a teaspoon of dough into a ball and flatted a little.
• 15 sandwich between 2 cookies and push icing to edges.