Mint Chocolate Chip Cookies With Fresh Mint Dessert For Two

Real Mint Chocolate Chip Cookies

I should clarify these are REAL mint chocolate chip cookies. Chocolate chip cookies made with fresh mint that you clipped from your garden and steeped in melted butter. Oh, this just got really good, didn’t it? This is shaping up to be a very good year! So many new cookbooks have landed in my hands, and I’m so inspired by all of them lately. My friends in the food world have been hustling hard lately, and I’m so dang proud of them. The recipe for these mint chocolate chip cookies comes from the lovely Andrea Bemis’ new cookbook, Dishing Up the Dirt! If you don’t know Andrea, let me catch you up real quick: she’s an adorable farmer chick that writes incredible recipes using the ingredients fresh from her fields that she tends with her husband and dog. And the girl can photograph her recipes like a boss and write an incredible cookbook! She’s a gem, you guys.

Farm-to-Table Cooking

I’ve been reading her blog for 4+ years (you guys know I used to work in farming, right?), and I love her real-life approach to farm-to-table food. It makes me miss driving tractors! Her gorgeous cookbook is mostly vegetarian and plant-based, but I considered it my duty to showcase one of her fabulous desserts. I can just imagine Andrea trekking out to her bountiful mint patch in her muddy work boots with her farm dog trotting alongside her. The sun is starting to set, and she’s wrapping up another long day of hard work on the farm. She clips a handful of fresh mint, and starts the long walk back to the house, reflecting on what she will make for dinner that night. It was slightly less romantic when I climbed over my fence and yanked up the last of the scraggly mint that escaped from one of my pots, sniffed it to make sure my dogs didn’t pee on it, and then ran back inside before my Tom’s got too dirty. Andrea and I basically have the same life, you know. In my dreams!

How to Make Mint Chocolate Chip Cookies

These cookies make perfect use of all the mint you have growing in your garden. Here’s what you need:

Unsalted Butter Fresh Mint Dark Brown Sugar Sugar Egg Vanilla All-Purpose Flour Baking Soda Sea Salt Semi-sweet Chocolate Chips

Steep the mint in butter to start. This process will take about 30 minutes. Strain the butter and combine with the dark brown sugar and the white sugar in a stand mixer. Add the egg and vanilla and beat for an additional minute. In a separate bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda, and salt. Add the dry ingredients to the wet while the mixer is running. Gently mix in the chocolate chips. Remove and chill for about an hour. Divide into 12 balls and bake for 11-12 minutes.