Chocolate Chip Andes Mint Cookies — 🍫🍪💚 These quadruple chocolate Andes mint cookies are big, bakery-style cookies that are rich, not overly sweet, and loaded with chocolate and mint chips.
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Fudgy Andes Mint Cookies
I’ve loved Andes Mint candies since I was a kid. They’re so satiny smooth and just melt in your mouth. So, in honor of Saint Patrick’s Day, I made these cookies with Andes Mint Chips in them.
The chewy chocolate cookies are super soft with slight chewiness around the edges. They’re supremely chocolaty with four types of chocolate used: cocoa, chocolate pudding, chocolate chunks, and Andes chips.
They’re thicker, bakery-style cookies that are bold and rich, not overly sweet and are loaded with melted chocolate and mint chips. As you bite down into the pillowy soft cookies, chocolate just oozes everywhere.
I adapted my recent recipe for Quadruple Chocolate Soft Fudgy Pudding Cookies. Those cookies are my favorite chocolate cookie base and have been so popular with readers. Many think of them as Christmas cookies, but I love them for St. Patrick’s day and spring, too!
They’re so moist and soft, and there’s a nice amount of mint flavor without overpowering the big, bold, chocolate fudge factor. There’s a reason they have an almost five-star review!
What Readers Are Saying:
These turned out great! Usually double chocolate cookies don’t have the right texture, but these were super yummy!!
Dorothy
Wonderful cookies- rich, fudgey, with just the right accents of mint to make me dream of Christmas in May ;)
Kimberly
Ingredients in Chocolate Andes Mint Cookies
To make these Andes mint chocolate chip cookies, you’ll need:
- Unsalted butter
- Light brown sugar
- Granulated sugar
- Eggs
- Vanilla extract
- Instant chocolate pudding mix – Make sure to buy instant chocolate pudding mix and not the cook-and-serve kind. You also can’t use sugar-free pudding mix in these Andes mint cookies
- Unsweetened cocoa powder
- Instant espresso granules
- All-purpose flour
- Baking soda
- Salt
- Andes Creme de Menthe Baking Chips
- Dark chocolate
Note: Scroll down to the recipe card section of the post for the ingredients with amounts included and for more complete directions.
How to Make Andes Chocolate Cookies
This Andes chocolate chip cookie recipe is chocolate is so quick and easy to make, although you do have to chill the dough before baking the cookies! Here’s an overview of the baking process:
- Cream together the wet ingredients. Add in the dry ingredients to the mixture, and stir until just combined.
- Stir in the Andes chocolate mint baking chips and the chopped chocolate.
- Scoop the dough into large dough balls, and chill for at least 2 hours.
- Once the dough is chilled, bake the Andes mint cookies on a Silpat-lined cookie sheet until the edges have set and tops are just set, even if slightly undercooked and glossy in the center.
- Let the chew chocolate cookies cool on the baking sheet (no need for a wire rack) for at least 10 minutes before digging in.
Baking Tip
Like all my cookie recipes, you must chill the dough if you want thick, bakery-style andes mint chocolate cookies. Warm dough spreads and your cookies will bake thinner and flatter.
It’s well worth it to me to chill the dough so that when I bite down, I’m taking big, thick bites and not settling for a skimpy, flat cookie. Why bother?
Also, chocolate cookie dough will fool you into thinking it’s not done, and all of a sudden, the cookies are overdone and dried out. Smaller cookies are more prone to this nasty phenomenon.
Frequently Asked Questions
Rather than using chocolate chips, I used Andes Crème de Menthe Baking Chips. The texture is a bit firmer than actual Andes mint bars, although maybe you could chop the bars very finely and use those, although I haven’t tried.
Or you’re welcome to use regular mint baking chips instead.
The cookies include a packet of instant chocolate pudding mix and there’s no substitutions.
If you don’t like pudding mix or don’t have it in your area, you can omit it, although the cookies won’t taste the same. Luckily I have oodles of other chocolate cookie recipes (see Related Recipes below) that don’t use it.
The pudding mix helps keep the cookies Softbatch-style soft, supple, and gives them just the right amount of lightness so they’re not overly dense.
I don’t recommend doing so, no. If you try shaping the cookie dough into balls after it’s been chilled, it’ll feel like you’re chiseling into a brick.
I added a teaspoon of instant espresso powder granules to the dough. I almost always do with chocolate recipes like brownies, energy bites, or chocolate muffins.
It doesn’t make things taste like coffee, it just serves to intensify and round out the chocolate flavor, but omit if you’re concerned.
These chocolate Andes mint chip cookies are somewhat larger than you may be used to baking at home, but still much smaller than cookies sold in bakeries and coffee shops. I yielded 14 cookies and recommend staying with this size, about 1/4 cup of dough each, and bake for 10 minutes.
Storage Instructions
The chocolate Andes mint cookies are best warm and fresh but will keep in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 1 week or in a freezer bag in the freezer for up to 6 months.
Alternatively, unbaked cookie dough can be stored airtight in the refrigerator for up to 5 days or in the freezer for up to 6 months, so consider baking only as many cookies as desired and save the remaining dough to be baked in the future when desired.
Andes Mint Chip Soft Fudgy Chocolate Cookies
Equipment
Ingredients
- ¾ cup unsalted butter, softened (1 1/2 sticks)
- ¾ cup light brown sugar, packed
- ¼ cup granulated sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 packet instant chocolate pudding mix, about 3.7 to 3.9 ounces (not sugar-free and not ‘cook & serve’)
- ¼ cup unsweetened natural cocoa powder
- 1 teaspoon instant espresso granules, optional, but recommended; brings out the chocolate flavor and does not make cookies taste like coffee
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- pinch salt, optional and to taste
- one 10-ounce bag Andes Creme de Menthe Baking Chips, mint baking chips may be substituted
- 2.5 to 3 ounces dark chocolate, chopped (I used Trader Joe’s 72% Pound Plus Bar)
Instructions
- To the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment (or large mixing bowl and electric mixer) combine the butter, sugars, eggs, vanilla, and beat on medium-high speed until creamed and well combined, about 4 minutes.
- Stop, scrape down the sides of the bowl, and add the pudding mix, cocoa, espresso granules, and beat on low speed until just combined, about 1 minute.
- Stop, scrape down the sides of the bowl, and add the flour, baking soda, optional salt, and beat on low speed until just combined, about 1 minute.
- Stop, scrape down the sides of the bowl, and add the Andes chips, chopped chocolate, and beat on low speed until just combined, about 30 seconds.
- Using a large cookie scoop, 1/4-cup measure, or your hands, form approximately 14 equal-sized mounds of dough. Roll into balls, and flatten slightly.
- Place mounds on a large plate or tray, cover with plastic wrap, and refrigerate for at least 2 hours, up to 5 days. Do not bake with unchilled dough because cookies will bake thinner, flatter, and be more prone to spreading.
- Preheat oven to 350F, line a baking sheet with a Silpat or spray with cooking spray.
- Place dough mounds on baking sheet, spaced at least 2 inches apart (I bake 8 cookies per sheet) and bake for about 10 minutes, or until edges have set and tops are just set, even if slightly undercooked and glossy in the center. Don’t overbake which is easy to do with dark cookies. Cookies firm up as they cool.
- Allow cookies to cool on baking sheet for about 10 minutes before serving. I let them cool on the baking sheet and don’t use a rack.
Notes
- Cookies are best warm and fresh, but will keep airtight at room temperature for up to 1 week or in the freezer for up to 6 months.
- Alternatively, unbaked cookie dough can be stored airtight in the refrigerator for up to 5 days or in the freezer for up to 6 months, so consider baking only as many cookies as desired and save the remaining dough to be baked in the future when desired.
- Recipe adapted from my Quadruple Chocolate Soft Fudgy Pudding Cookies.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
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These turned out great! Usually double chocolate cookies donât have the right texture, but these were super yummy!!
These turned out great! Usually double chocolate cookies donât have the right texture, but these were super yummy!!
Thanks for the 5 star review and I am glad these turned out great! And I know what you mean about double chocolate cookies and texture and it’s why I created this recipe to be different – because cocoa powder can dry things out if you don’t take care with the other ingredients to combat that.