Ingredients
350 f oven
1 box yellow cake mix
1 stick margarine or butter, melted
Directions
CHOCOLATE MINT MIDDLES
Trader Joe's chocolate mint UFOs, or similar chocolate wafers 1 egg
Melt butter in microwave, stir it, make sure it's not too hot. Stir
in egg thoroughly, add to cake mix, stir up into a cookie dough. All
dry ingredients should be moistened.
At this point you can use it or wrap it airtight and store in fridge
up to a couple of weeks.
Scoop about a heaping teaspoon full and mould it around a chocolate
mint wafer. If you have a gem pan (shallow muffin tin), put them
into the depressions. Bake at 350 degrees, check after 9 minutes.
("Cook at moderate heat until done.")
Cool completely in pan, remove with plastic fork. Will make more than
4 dozen. --Jocelyn "Mom" Baden, Costa Mesa CA
[I haven't tried this yet myself; when I went down to TJ's they were
out of the chocolate mint UFOs, and we don't keep cake mix in the
house. Mom vouches for it as a great treat to keep on hand for
cooking in the toaster-oven; the gem pan holds 6 cookies and fits
neatly on the rack.]
["Similar chocolate wafers" should be about the same size as a
Hersheys Kiss, but flatter.]
Servings: 6 servings
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