Mint Crinkle Cookies – the perfect amount of crispy, soft and chewy, minty goodness, covered in blissful powdered sugar sweetness; your tasty St. Patrick’s Day crinkle cookies.
These Mint Crinkle Cookies gave me a little bit of flack. In fairness, it wasn’t the cookie’s fault. This recipe calls for melted better and for the first time ever, I had butter explode in my microwave. You see this baker didn’t cover her butter since it has never exploded before and well the microwave was covered and dripping with melted butter. I suppose I should consider myself lucky that this was the first time this happen.
After I cleaned up my microwave, I started over with the melting of the butter and this time I covered the bowl. Other than that these Mint Crinkle Cookies are pretty straight forward.
St. Patrick’s Day or St. Patty’s Day as I like to call it, is a bit of an underrated holiday when it comes to baking. There just aren’t enough recipes for this green holiday. Good thing there are 9 St. Patrick’s Day Sweet Treats and these Mint Crinkle Cookies!
Today’s Mint Crinkle Cookies are super easy to make, in fact the hardest part is rolling them around in sugar and powdered sugar, which isn’t hard either. This cookie recipe has seven ingredients: white boxed cake mix, melted butter, eggs, peppermint extract, green food coloring, granulated sugar, and powdered sugar.
To make these minty green cookies you’ll dump all the ingredients minus the sugars into a mixing bowl and mix-mix-mix until all the ingredients are combined. After that you’re just prepping for baking.
The Mint Crinkle Cookie dough is quite sticky and has a thick, play-doughy texture. The best way to handle the crinkle cookie dough is to use a cookie scoop. This will prevent over-touching the sticky dough. It also creates uniform sized balls of dough and subsequently cookies. You’ll want to plop the dough from the cookie scoop right into the sugar, rolling it around and touching it minimally.
The tip to making totally awesome Mint Crinkle Cookies {and all crinkle cookies} is to roll the balls of dough in granulated sugar before rolling them in powdered sugar. The granulated sugar draws out moisture giving your crinkle cookies the crinkle AND acts as a barrier preventing your cookies from absorbing the powdered sugar. You want crinkles and powdered sugar ON your crinkle cookies.
Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Happy St. Patty’s Mint Crinkle Cookies!
Ingredients
- 1 white boxed cake mix (16.25 oz)
- 6 tablespoons butter, melted
- 2 large eggs
- 3/4 teaspoon peppermint extract
- green food coloring *
- 1/4 cup granulated sugar
- 2/3 cup powdered sugar
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375F degrees.
- In a large bowl using an electric mixer, mix together boxed cake mix, melted butter, eggs, peppermint extract and green food coloring; mix until combined.
- Place granulated sugar and powdered sugar in separate shallow dishes. Scoop dough into tablespoon balls using a #50 disher and drop into granulated sugar and roll to coat. Transfer dough balls to powdered sugar and roll to coat. Evenly space dough balls on baking sheet.
- Bake 9-11 minutes, until puffed and cracked and edges have begun to set but centers are still soft (cookies will look raw between cracks and seem underdone).
- Cool cookies on baking sheet on wire rack for 5 minutes; transfer to a wire rack to cool completely. Eat & Enjoy!
Notes
Store Mint Crinkle Cookies in an airtight container; will keep for 3+ days.
* I used two drops of Americolor Mint Green Soft Gel Paste.
I love mint! Growing up I always requested a chocolate and mint cake for my birthday. Will have to try these 🙂
Denise, a chocolate and mint cake sounds wonderful. I may have to make that. 🙂 Thanks for stopping by!
I find refrigerating the dough 20+ minutes helps to roll them into balls-I love baking with cakemixes, one can be quite creative with add-ins.
Hi Maureen. I am partial to cake mix recipes too; the creative options are endless!
I love crinkle cookies and yours look fabulous!
Thanks Erica!
I saw these on Retro Re-Pin and they are definitely eye catching. I love that they start with a cake mix. Pinned and plan on making these soon.
Awesome Beverly! Thanks for stopping by!
Sarah,
These are so adorable! I love crinkle cookies, and this minty green twist looks so delicious! The best part is that you can easily adapt your recipe for vegan or dairy-free eaters!
Thanks Aida! I never thought about doing a vegan or dairy-free option. I’ll have to look into that.
These cookies look so so good! I bet my hubby would love these! Maybe I will make them St. Patty’s Day next week. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks J! If you bake them I’d love to see them, tag #sarahsbakestudio on social media.
These cookies are adorable and I love the color.
Thanks Thao! 🙂
Oh my goodness, look at that beautiful color on these cookies!
Thanks Lisa!
Great cookie for x mas t. Refrigerate dough for a little bit, easier to scoop. My husband just loves them with melted chocolate over them.
Anne – I love the idea of this cookie with melted chocolate. That sounds wonderful! Thanks for stopping by and commenting! 🙂