Holiday Cookies: Grasshoppers
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Ingredients
  • Cookies:
  • 1 box Devil's Food cake mix
  • 2 eggs
  • ½ cup oil
  • Mint Frosting:
  • 2 cups powdered sugar
  • 2 Tbs milk
  • ½ cup butter, softened
  • 1 tsp mint extract
  • 8 drops green (or red) food coloring
  • Dark Chocolate Ganache:
  • ¼ cup butter
  • 1 cup dark chocolate chips
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees
  2. Mix together cake mix, oil and eggs
  3. Spoon dough onto baking sheet
  4. Bake at 350 degrees for 8 minutes
  5. Let cookies cool completely
  6. Mix together butter, powdered sugar, milk, mint extract and food coloring
  7. Spread frosting over each cookie
  8. Melt butter and chocolate chips at 15 second intervals in the microwave, stirring between each heating until fully melted
  9. Spread ganache on top of frosting using the back of a spoon
Recipe by Seeing Sunshine at https://seeingsunshine.com/2013/11/25/grasshopper-cookies/