The One Where I Pretend I'm a Food Blogger: Chocolate Mint Bars

My kids asked how many pages of paragraphs of backstory I was going to write before I give you the recipe.

So, let’s get to the point. This is a family recipe for Chocolate Mint Bars that my grandmother, Bev Sander, aka Nannie, used to serve for all of her Christmas parties. I have so many fond memories of sneaking these cookies. As she was getting older, we had many cherished girls baking days with her where we’d all pitch in to make her dozen varieties of cookies. I was always in charge of the mint bars.

She left us her recipe cookbook, affectionately known as “The Blue Book”, with all of her handwritten recipes she’d collected over the years. Unfortunately some of them are written in her shorthand. Unless you had made them with her, you might not know the nuance of making them.

Over the years I have pats self on back perfected the art of the mint bar so I have decided to share it first and foremost my cousins who didn’t get the same amount of time on the earth with Nannie that I did. And also, my precious 8th Grade Girls Religion Class who has heard many stories about Nannie and “The Blue Book”

Without further ado, I give you…..the recipe.