Nestle Dark Chocolate & Mint Chip Cookies

This is NOT an official Nestle recipe. However this is my adaptation of Alton Brown’s cookie recipe, which is an adapation itself of the Nestle recipe.

Once again this year, Nestle has come out with some dark chocolate & mint morsels for Christmas time. So naturally when I bought these the first time that came to mind was cookies. The Nestle Tollhouse chocolate chip cookie recipe is a classic one. It is one that Alton Brown did some tweaking around with on an episode of Good Eats. He made changes to produce slightly different cookies. He made one batch more puffy, one more chewy, and another thinner. My favorite of the three is the chewy. Just as Alton did I decided to do some tweaking of my own. I took Alton’s recipe and took out 1/4 cup of the bread flour and replaced it with 1/4 cup of cocoa powder. Of course I am using Nestle Dark Chocolate & Mint chips instead of the semi-sweet. And if you want to up the minty taste you can replace the vanilla extract with a mint extract.

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Nestle Dark Chocolate & Mint Chip Cookies

Ingredients

• 2 sticks unsalted butter
• 2 cups bread flour
• 1/4 cup cocoa powder
• 1 teaspoon kosher salt
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/4 cup white granulated sugar
• 1 1/4 cups brown sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 egg yolk
• 2 tablespoons milk
• 1 1/2 teaspoons of extract either all vanilla, all mint, or all peppermint or some combination of them that equal 1 1/2 teaspoons
• 1 bag of Nestle Dark Chocolate & Mint morsels

Instructions

1. Preheat your oven to 375 degrees.
2. Combine the flour, cocoa, salt, and baking soda into a medium sized bowl and put aside.
3. Melt the butter and pour it into a large bowl or the mixing bowl from your stand mixer.
4. Add both of the sugars and cream them into the butter.
5. Then add both the egg and the egg yolk, the milk, and whatever extract you chose. Mix well to evenly distribute.
6. Then add the flour and cocoa powder slowly while the mixer is going so it doesn't go flying everywhere.
7. Then stir in the dark chocolate & mint chips.
8. Place the dough in the fridge for at least a half hour. Allowing the dough to chill will harden the fat (butter) so that the cookies won't spread as much in the oven. If you want your cookies to spread more than just skip this step and you will end up with a more crisp cookie.
9. Scoop the cookies onto a baking sheet with parchment paper on it, or a Slipat. I can usually fit about 6 cookies per sheet.
10. In my oven I bake them for about 10-12 minutes. It's a good idea to check the cookies after 5 minutes to gauge how long you should cook them. Since this cookies are dark already because of the cocoa it will be more of a challenge to tell when they are done. I always give some time for the first batch to cool to be sure I baked them the right amount of time (if not I adjust accordingly from then on). I typically get about 18 good-sized cookies out of this recipe. Enjoy!