Mrs Fields Chocolate Mint Cookies

 Categories: Cookies
      Yield: 36 servings

  2 2/3 c  All-purpose flour
    1/2 ts Baking soda
    1/4 ts Salt
    1/2 c  Unsweetened cocoa powder
    3/4 c  Light brown sugar; packed
    2/3 c  White sugar
      1 c  Salted butter; softened
      3 lg Eggs
      1 ts Pure mint extract
     10 oz Mint chocolate chips

 

     Preheat oven to 300-degrees.  In a medium bowl combine flour, soda, salt  and cocoa powder.  Mix well with a wire whisk and set aside. In a large bowl blend sugars with an electric mixer at medium speed.  Add butter and beat to form a grainy paste. Scrape sides of bow, then add  eggs and mint extract. 

Beat at medium speed until light and fluffy. Add  the flour mixture and chocolate chips, and blend at low spead just until  combined.  Do not overmix  Drop dough by rounded tablespoonsfuls onto  ungreased cookie sheets, 1-1/2 inches apart. Bake for 19-21 miuntes.  Immediately transfer cookies with a spatula to  a cool, flat surface.