While living in Hawaii, I never had to deal with hard lumps of brown sugar. In Champaign, the air is pretty dry, so once I open a bag of brown sugar, within my next use of brown sugar there are dry lumps of sugar. I cannot use rocks of brown sugar in my baking, so I end up tossing the whole bag (or baking muffins with pockets of sugar). But, this past Christmas season, I was introduced to Andes Chocolate Mint cookies! Another student in my department made these for a progressive dinner and I had to have the recipe! Not only do they taste great, I do not have to waste my brown sugar!
Andes Chocolate Mint Cookies
Ingredients:
¾ c. margarine
1 & 1/2 c. brown sugar
12 oz. chocolate chips (I used Nestle semi-sweet chocolate chips)
2 eggs
2-1/2 c. flour
1-1/4 t. baking soda
½ t. salt
2 T. water
2 (6 oz.) boxes Andes Candies
If you slightly under-cook the cookies, or make them thicker, they have a chewy slight brownie consistency, which makes the uber delicious too!
These cookies are so simple to make and so delicious! I am not sure how they will hold up in warmer climates, but in colder climates, these cookies are great!
It's a pretty foolproof recipe. But we'll see just how foolproof they are. I emailed the recipe to my sister (that's the foolproof test) and she made it a few weeks ago. My sister also used Splenda's brown sugar, so we'll see how her cookies turned out.
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8 comments:
can't you sift the sugar or use one of those terracotta pieces to keep the sugar soft? seems kind of wasteful to throw it out.
That's a neat idea to put the chocolate on top!
Oh yummy! I understand about the sugar. I have a lot of weird food things here from different weather than Hawaii. I often use the hard lumps in a crumble topping over fruit or something like that. The cookies sound really good. My friend made me chocolate cookies with Andes peppermint chips mixed in and they were amazing!
YUM! Did you know they sell Andes mint chips now? So good. :)
Oh by all means, get yourself a Brown Sugar Saver terra cotta disk. It's so sad to throw away brown sugar when it's so easy to make it soft again! :o)
Cindy H
Hard Brown Sugar?
Kat and Cindy-thanks for the suggestion about the terra cotta disks. I've seen them in stores but wasn't sure they worked.
Lori-yeah, Adding the chocolate on top was great. Oh and then what's even better was that Mike placed a scoop of mint chocolate chip ice cream in between two cookies. yummy!
Diana and Chou-I think I've seen Andes chips. Maybe I'll try to modify the recipe and add the chips inside the cookie too!
When your brown sugar gets hard put a slice of bread in the bag or container, the sugar will soften in a day or two. Take of the bread slice and toss it.
AZ-thanks for the tip! I'll try that next time.
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