Mojito Cookies Easy Soft Chewy Rum Mint Lime Chilled Recipe

Mojito Cookies are the recipe that Teresa makes for every bachelorette party and every girls’ gathering and every summer bridal shower when she wants to create the most completely extraordinary and most genuinely conversation-starting cookie that makes every person who picks one up immediately and completely intrigued by the most perfectly soft and most deeply chewy rum-and-mint-and-lime cookie that does not look extraordinary from the outside but that delivers the most completely

Unexpected and most genuinely mojito-cocktail-authentic flavor from the combination of the most carefully measured spearmint extract — chosen specifically over peppermint for the most authentic mojito mint character — and the most pronounced rum extract and the most fragrant lime zest garnish pressed over each warm cookie right before serving for the most vibrantly aromatic and most completely beautiful finishing touch. She creams the butter with both granulated and brown sugars, adds the egg and milk and rum extract and spearmint extract, folds in the flour mixture, chills for the most essential two hours, and bakes to the most beautifully pale golden and most softly pillowy result.

Mojito Cookies are the most easy and deeply soft chewy summer cocktail cookies made with creamed butter granulated and brown sugar egg milk rum extract spearmint extract flour baking soda and salt chilled 2 hours and baked at 350°F for 10 to 12 minutes garnished with lime zest and fresh mint. Come follow us on Pinterest where we share beautiful cookie recipes and easy summer party favorites from our kitchen every single week.

Why You Will Love This Mojito Cookies Recipe

This Mojito Cookies recipe is the most completely extraordinary and most genuinely unique summer party cookie that produces the most authentically mojito-flavored result from the most carefully balanced and most specifically chosen combination of rum extract and spearmint extract that together produce the most accurate and most completely satisfying mojito cocktail flavor in every single most soft and most perfectly chewy individual cookie bite without any alcohol content whatsoever.

The two-hour mandatory refrigerator chill before baking is the most important preparation step in the entire recipe and produces the most dramatically superior result compared to baking unchilled dough. The extended chill allows the rum and spearmint extract flavors to meld most deeply into the butter-sugar-flour dough, producing the most completely developed and most richly flavored mojito cookie. The chill also produces the most properly firm dough that maintains the most beautiful shape during baking and produces the most soft and most perfectly chewy rather than flat and crispy result. Our Mojito Sugar Cookies make a beautifully equally lime-and-mint and equally summer-party-vibrant companion for a complete and wonderful mojito-inspired cookie collection.

Ingredients Needed for This Mojito Cookies Recipe

½ cup (1 stick) Unsalted Butter, softened to room temperature
½ cup Granulated Sugar
½ cup Light Brown Sugar, packed
1 large Egg
2 tbsp Whole Milk
2 tsp Rum Extract (imitation is perfect)
⅛ tsp Spearmint Extract (not peppermint — spearmint is essential)
1½ cups All-Purpose Flour
1 tsp Baking Soda
½ tsp Salt
Fresh Key Lime or Regular Lime Zest for garnishing
Fresh Mint Leaves for garnishing

How to Make This Mojito Cookies Recipe

In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, or in a large mixing bowl with an electric mixer, add the room-temperature softened butter with both the granulated sugar and packed light brown sugar. Beat on medium-high speed until the most creamed and most well combined and most fluffy mixture forms, approximately 2 to 3 minutes.

Stop and scrape down the sides of the bowl. Add the egg, milk, rum extract, and spearmint extract. Beat on medium-high speed until the most light and most beautifully fluffy mixture forms, approximately 2 minutes, cara mia.

Stop and scrape down the sides of the bowl again. Add the flour, baking soda, and salt. Mix until just combined, approximately 1 minute or less. Do not overmix.

Using a 2-ounce cookie scoop, form approximately 16 uniformly sized cookie dough balls. Place on a large plate, cover with plastic wrap, and refrigerate for at least 2 hours and up to 4 days before baking. This mandatory chilling step is the most non-negotiable preparation stage for the most extraordinary finished mojito cookie.

Preheat the oven to 350°F. Line a baking sheet with a silicone mat or parchment paper. Place the chilled dough balls on the sheet spaced evenly apart, baking 8 cookies per sheet.

Bake for 10 to 12 minutes until pale golden and edges have just set, even if slightly undercooked and glossy in the center. Cookies will firm up most beautifully as they cool. Allow to cool on the baking sheet for 10 minutes before garnishing with lime zest and fresh mint leaves right before serving.

How to Serve This Mojito Cookies Recipe

Serve at room temperature immediately after garnishing with the most vibrant fresh lime zest and the most fragrant fresh mint leaves for the most completely beautiful and most genuinely mojito-authentic cookie presentation. The lime zest and mint garnish should be added only immediately before serving as both will discolor and turn dark within a few hours of being applied.

Present on a beautiful white plate garnished with additional fresh lime wedges and mint sprigs for the most completely extraordinary summer party and bachelorette party cookie table. Our Key Lime Cookies make a beautifully equally lime-bright and equally refreshingly summer-citrus companion for a complete and wonderful summer lime cookie collection.

How to Store This Mojito Cookies Recipe

Store ungarnished cookies in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 5 days. Freeze fully baked ungarnished cookies for up to 3 months. Unbaked chilled dough balls can be stored in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 5 days, allowing fresh-baked cookies at any moment throughout the week without the 2-hour chill wait.

Tips to Make This Mojito Cookies Recipe

Use spearmint extract rather than peppermint extract without exception. Spearmint extract produces the most authentically mojito-fresh and most accurately cocktail-reminiscent mint flavor that is the most genuine and most perfectly balanced. Peppermint extract produces a completely different and most overpowering candy-cane-and-toothpaste mint flavor that is entirely wrong for the mojito character of these cookies.

Start with only one eighth of a teaspoon of spearmint extract and taste the dough before adding any more. Mint extract of any variety is significantly more potent per drop than vanilla extract — adding too much produces cookies that taste of mouthwash rather than the most subtly and most authentically mojito-mint-fresh cookie. One eighth to one quarter teaspoon is the most effective and most precisely correct range.

Helpful Notes for This Mojito Cookies Recipe

Imitation rum extract — which contains no actual alcohol — produces a dramatically more concentrated and more pronounced rum flavor per teaspoon than actual rum would provide in the same volume, because actual rum contains mostly water and relatively little flavoring compound while rum extract is concentrated directly from the most aromatic rum-flavoring compounds. Imitation rum extract is also the most commonly and most conveniently available in the baking aisle of any grocery store.

For the most beautifully rum-flavored mojito cookie glaze, whisk two cups of powdered sugar with three to four tablespoons of actual white rum for the most completely extraordinary and most genuinely rum-flavored adult drizzle glaze that can be applied over the completely cooled cookies right before serving.

Variation of This Mojito Cookies Recipe

Maria made a version adding a quarter cup of mini white chocolate chips to the dough before chilling for the most completely extraordinary and most deeply creamy vanilla-white-chocolate contrast against the most vibrant rum and mint and lime character. Teresa tried a coconut mojito version by adding a quarter cup of sweetened shredded coconut to the dough for the most beautifully tropical and most completely extraordinary coconut mojito cookie.

For a mojito sandwich cookie, make a simple lime buttercream of half a cup softened butter beaten with two cups powdered sugar, one tablespoon lime juice, and one eighth teaspoon spearmint extract for the most completely extraordinary and most deeply mojito-flavored sandwich cookie. Our Mojito Sugar Cookies make a beautifully equally rum-and-mint and equally summer-vibrant companion for a complete and wonderful mojito cookie collection.

FAQs About This Mojito Cookies Recipe

Why must spearmint extract be used rather than peppermint extract?

Spearmint extract tastes most authentically like the fresh mint leaves that go into a real mojito cocktail — bright, fresh, and herbally cool without any candy-sweet or medicinal character. Peppermint extract tastes like holiday candy canes and peppermint candies, producing a completely wrong and most inappropriately holiday-flavored mojito cookie rather than the most authentic and most genuinely summer-refreshing result.

Why must the dough chill for 2 hours before baking?

The 2-hour mandatory refrigerator chill allows the rum and spearmint extract flavors to meld most deeply and most completely into the butter-sugar-flour dough base, producing significantly more flavorful and most properly developed cookies than unchilled dough would produce. The chill also firms the dough to prevent excessive spreading during baking and produces the most properly chewy and most beautifully soft cookie rather than a flat and crispy result.

Can I use fresh mint instead of spearmint extract?

Fresh mint is not recommended for the cookie dough because it turns dark and unsightly green or black during baking, creating an unattractive appearance in the finished cookie. Fresh mint is used only as the most beautiful and most vibrant garnish applied immediately before serving. Spearmint extract provides the mint flavor throughout the dough most effectively and most attractively.

Conclusion

These Mojito Cookies are the most completely extraordinary and most deeply authentic rum-and-mint-and-lime summer party cookie that makes every bachelorette gathering and every summer celebration feel genuinely and completely special through the most precisely balanced spearmint extract and rum extract and the most fragrant lime zest and fresh mint garnish in every single ultra-soft and completely irresistible mojito cookie bite. We hope they bring the same deeply joyful summer cocktail cookie magic and the same completely delighted gathering to your kitchen that they have always brought to ours. Make them, share them, and come back to tell us all about it. With all our love, Maria, Lucia, and Teresa.

Mojito Cookies The Most Easy Soft Chewy Rum Extract Spearmint Lime Zest Chilled Cookie You Will Bake

Author: Nonna Lucia Bianchi
Total Time: 2 hours 21 minutes
Yield: 16 cookies 1x
Diet: Vegetarian

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Description

The most easy ultra-soft Mojito Cookies made by beating 1/2 cup room temperature butter with 1/2 cup granulated and 1/2 cup packed light brown sugar on medium-high 2 to 3 minutes scraping bowl adding 1 large egg 2 tbsp milk 2 tsp rum extract and 1/8 tsp spearmint extract beating 2 minutes adding 1 1/2 cups flour 1 tsp baking soda and 1/2 tsp salt mixing just until combined forming 16 uniformly sized balls covering and refrigerating minimum 2 hours baking on parchment-lined sheet at 350°F for 10 to 12 minutes until pale golden cooling on sheet 10 minutes and garnishing with fresh lime zest and mint leaves only immediately before serving. A completely extraordinary summer mojito cookie recipe.

Ingredients

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1/2 cup 1 stick Unsalted Butter softened to room temperature

1/2 cup Granulated Sugar

1/2 cup Light Brown Sugar packed

1 large Egg

2 tbsp Whole Milk

2 tsp Rum Extract imitation is perfect

1/8 tsp Spearmint Extract not peppermint

1 1/2 cups All-Purpose Flour

1 tsp Baking Soda

1/2 tsp Salt

Fresh Key Lime or Regular Lime Zest for garnishing immediately before serving

Fresh Mint Leaves for garnishing immediately before serving

Instructions

1. Beat room temperature butter with granulated and brown sugar on medium-high 2 to 3 minutes until creamed. Scrape bowl.

2. Add egg, milk, rum extract, and spearmint extract. Beat medium-high 2 minutes until light and fluffy. Scrape bowl.

3. Add flour, baking soda, and salt. Mix just until combined about 1 minute. Do not overmix.

4. Using 2-oz cookie scoop form 16 uniform dough balls.

5. Place on plate cover with plastic wrap.

6. Refrigerate minimum 2 hours up to 4 days. Mandatory step.

7. Preheat oven to 350°F. Line sheet with silicone mat or parchment.

8. Place chilled balls on sheet spaced evenly. Bake 8 per sheet.

9. Bake 10 to 12 minutes until pale golden edges just set even if slightly glossy center.

10. Cool on sheet 10 minutes.

11. Garnish with lime zest and fresh mint only immediately before serving.

Prep Time: 10 minutes plus 2 hours chilling
Cook Time: 11 minutes
Category: Dessert, Cookies, Summer
Method: Baking, Chilled Dough
Cuisine: American

Nutrition

Serving Size: 1 cookie
Calories: 146
Sugar: 12g
Sodium: 153mg
Fat: 6g
Saturated Fat: 4g
Unsaturated Fat: 2g
Trans Fat: 0g
Carbohydrates: 21g
Fiber: 0g
Protein: 2g
Cholesterol: 27mg

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Lucia Bianchi

Lucia Bianchi is the heart of authentic Italian pizza. With decades of experience, she masters both classic and gourmet pizzas, bringing rich heritage and elegant flavors straight from Italy’s kitchen to your plate. Her passion for tradition and culinary creativity ensures every pizza is a delicious journey into Italy’s finest flavors.