12 Days of Christmas Cookies: Mint Chocolate Cookie Squares
Our 12th Day of Christmas Cookies brings you a recipe that will be a crowd pleasure and one you can save for Christmases to come. Mint chocolate cookie squares are a satisfying and epic way to round off our 12 Days of Christmas Cookies.
These irresistible squares can be decorated with peppermint for an extra touch of Christmas.
- Prep Time: 30 minutes
- Cook Time: 10 minutes
- Total Time: 40 minutes
Ingredients
Scale
Base
1 cup Oreo Cookie crumbs
¼ cup of butter
Mint chocolate center
½ cup butter
2 ½ cups icing sugar
¼ cup whipping cream
2 tsp peppermint extract
Green food colouring
Topping
115 grams milk chocolate
55 grams dark chocolate
½ cup whipping cream
Instructions
- Mix Oreo Cookie crumbs and ¼ cup of butter and place in bottom of 9×9 pan and bake at 350 degrees for 10min.
- Let the base cool.
- In a large bowl beat butter and icing sugar until it’s crumbly.
- Beat in whipping cream and peppermint extract.
- Add food colouring until desired colour.
- Scrape over cooled crust and refrigerate.
- In a pot melt together chocolate, and whipping cream over low heat stirring until smooth.
- Let cool for 5 minutes and pour over mint filling, and top with candy cane pieces.
- Refrigerate until firm, cut and serve.