Mint Chocolate Chip Cookies are a perfect St. Patrick’s Day treat! This easy recipe features creamy mint filling sandwiched between chewy chocolate chip cookies. Dip them in white chocolate and sprinkles for even more fun!
If you love homemade cookie sandwiches, try these classic Chocolate Chip Sandwich Cookies next. Or give our classic whoopie pies a whirl.
Why this Recipe Works
When it comes to chewy chocolate chip cookies, sometimes you just want a shortcut.
- This recipe uses refrigerated cookie dough OR homemade. Your choice!
- Cookie Sandwiches are held together with a mint buttercream filling.
- Eat them as is or dip in white chocolate and sprinkles for a holiday treat.
There’s a reason refrigerator cookies are so popular. They are soft and chewy and easy to make too.
Today, we gave them a makeover with a sweet, minty buttercream filling!
Ingredient Notes
- Cookie dough. As noted above, you can’t beat the convenience of popping open a tube of ready made cookie dough. I use Pillsbury brand, but any brand you like will do. Or swap it for homemade!
- Green food coloring. A couple of drops of food gel is all you need to give the filling an eye-catching mint green color.
- White chocolate melting wafers. If you want to add a white chocolate finish, you can’t beat melting wafers! The melted chocolate sets up smooth and shiny in no time at all.
- Peppermint extract. Use pure extract (not imitation flavor) for the best minty flavor.
Easy Instructions
Start by baking your cookies.
I used a 1 tablespoon cookie scoop to make mini cookies. While the cookies are cooling, make the frosting.
Buttercream mint filling.
Making this mint buttercream is easy as can be. You just beat softened butter with the mint extract, powdered sugar and other ingredients until fluffy and smooth.
Then, pipe a little frosting between two like-sized cookies. Stick them together and you have the best ever cookie sandwiches!
Oh my word these are delicious.
I used this easy cookie dough in these Oreo Stuffed cookies, too remember how fun these are?
Tips and Tricks
- White chocolate dip: Melt chocolate wafers according to package directions. Dip one side of each cookie sandwich in the white chocolate. Immediately garnish with green sprinkles.
- Sprinkle options. I used cute shamrock sprinkles to make these St. Patty’s Day themed. You can use any color or variety of sprinkles you like here!
- Storing. Store Mint Chocolate Chip Sandwich Cookies in an airtight container for up to 1 week. No need to chill.
Recipe FAQs
The buttercream flavor is best when you use peppermint extract. Spearmint has a sharper flavor that can be too intense for some.
I got 20 sandwiches out of this recipe because I scooped the cookie dough into smaller portions than usual when baking.
If you make the cookies more a typical size (2 tbs scoops), you’ll get fewer cookies.
This recipe doubles well too. Just grab an extra tube of cookie dough and double the buttercream!
You sure can! If you love chocolate and mint together, try swapping the regular chocolate chip cookie dough for a batch of Chocolate Chocolate Chip Cookie dough instead.
It would also be tasty spread onto these Chewy Sugar Cookies.
More Cookie Recipes
- Snickerdoodles
- Pecan Sandies
- Chocolate Macadamia Nut Cookies
- Salted Caramel Cookies
- Peanut Butter Bars
Mint Chocolate Chip Cookie Sandwiches
Ingredients
- 1 package Refrigerated Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough 16 ounce
- ¼ cup unsalted butter softened
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- ½ teaspoon pure mint extract
- green food coloring
- 1 Tablespoon milk
- ¾ cup Ghirardelli white chocolate wafers melted
- sprinkles
Instructions
- Scoop 1 Tablespoon cookie dough and roll it into a ball. Place on a parchment paper lined baking sheet. Bake in a 350 degree oven for about 8-10 minutes. Remove and cool completely on wire rack.
- In a mixing bowl, beat softened butter with sugar, mint, green food coloring and milk for 3-5 minutes, until light and fluffy. Spoon into a decorating bag and pipe onto cooled cookies, pairing like sized cookies together.
- Dip half of the cookie into melted white chocolate, add sprinkles immediately. Place cookie back on parchment paper until set, about 10 minutes. Store in airtight container at room temperature for up to one week. ENJOY.
Notes
- Can use a homemade chocolate chip cookie recipe if preferred.
- White chocolate dip: Melt chocolate wafers according to package directions. Dip one side of each cookie sandwich in the white chocolate. Immediately garnish with green sprinkles.
- Sprinkle options. I used cute shamrock sprinkles to make these St. Patty’s Day themed. You can use any color or variety of sprinkles you like here!
- Storing. Store Mint Chocolate Chip Sandwich Cookies in an airtight container for up to 1 week. No need to chill.
Nutrition
Mint frosting and chocolate chip cookies together are unbelievably delicious! These are the best mint chocolate chip cookies you’ll ever taste.
Thank goodness for snow angels. These cookies look amazing. Love that filling. Pinned.
What an amazing act of kindness by the snow angles! Plus these cookies? Yum!
Wow! There is good still in this world! Well other than fabulous cookies like these!
Hooray for focusing on the good! It’s so important that we don’t forget how many kind people there are 🙂 ((I have a friend who cares for his aunt who has Alzheimer’s and during all the snow someone-he doesn’t know who-has shoveled his drive every time. So sweet!))
and I adore these tasty, classic choc chip cookies with that sweet minty treat between 🙂
I love easy desserts but ones that come out look and I bet tasting amazing!!
As a Pillsbury We Heart Maker, I adore all of these recipes! They are all amazing! Great round up!!
Aimee, everything about this is STUNNING. The photos, the sprinkles, the fonts – I love it all! pinned!
Thanks for pinning, you’re so sweet!!
How fun are these!! Pinned!
These are so festive and fun!! Love the double cookie dose 🙂
What a great story! I think we do tend to focus to much on the negative. This is a tasty looking cookie! So festive!
Thank you Laura! I’m going to be more positive and giving!!!
LOVE!! These look so tasty, and I’m a huge fan of the Pillsbury chocolate chip cookie dough. 🙂
SO fun, and perfect for St patty’s day
Aimee, these look so addictive and hard to stop at just 1, right? I’d probably have 3 or 4 🙂
I think 3 or 4 is quite a modest number!
Easy peasy and so super fun and festive for St. Paddy’s Day!!
Thanks Hayley 🙂
Love cookie sandwiches! And what a great story! And I’m sure it was a huge relief.
Yeah, my husband had to actually work out, no shoveling required 🙂
These cookies look delicious. I’m especially loving the shamrock sprinkles too
Thanks Rochelle, I adore sprinkles!
What an awesome story!! You’ll have to pay it forward some day…with these cookies! 🙂
Haha, coming your way 😉
The cookies look great! I could almost taste the mint.
And yes, there is plenty of good in the world still. A few weeks ago my wife dropped an $80 gift card (wrapped in the receipt that said it was $80) in the parking lot of Walmart. Didn’t realize until we went to checkout. I combed the store, went outside, nothing. It was a long shot but I went to customer service and some guy found it outside next to the car and brought it to lost and found. Freaking. Saint. We’ve had a new outlook on helping people ever since.
WOW! That’s so awesome, quite honest of that person. Love hearing stories of saints…
I just loving hearing stories of good and “angels”. What a wonderful surprise for your street to wake up too! And these cookies…delish city! I love the color tones in your pictures too! Gorgeous!!
It was a nice surprise!! I hope everyone on street enjoyed it too. Thanks for the sweet compliment 🙂
These look delicious Aimee! And so festive! And I’m totally cracking up, because the cookies I’m posting tomorrow are a totally different flavor but also dipped in white chocolate with the exact same sprinkles. 🙂 Obviously I’m a fan!
Oooh I can’t wait to see them Lindsay!! I love those sprinkles 🙂