These delicious mint chocolate chip cookies are naturally green. The cookies are naturally colored with sunflower seeds! Sunflower seeds turn green in an alkaline environment (baking soda). But the sunflower seed mint cookies don’t taste of sunflower seeds, they taste minty and refreshing!

Don’t the naturally green chocolate chip cookies look colorful with the natural blue icing? I used butterfly pea flower tea to dye the icing but you can also use homemade natural blue food coloring.

Ingredients:

Naturally Green Mint Chocolate Chip Cookies

• 1 cup homemade naturally green sunflower seeds
• 3 cups flour
• 1/2 cup butter
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 2 eggs
• 4 tbsp yogurt – I used soy yogurt
• 2 tsp homemade vanilla extract
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 14 drops essential peppermint oil
• 1/2 cup chocolate chips

Natural Blue Icing

• 1 bag butterfly pea flower powder (1.5g)
• 2 tbsp boiling water
• 3/4 cup powdered sugar

Naturally Green Mint Chocolate Chip Cookies

Preheat the oven to 180°C/ 350°F. Line two baking sheets with baking paper.

Puree the naturally green sunflower seeds in a food processor until smooth. Mix all ingredients together. Roll tablespoon-sized spoonfuls of batter into balls. Use a fork to press a criss-cross pattern into them.

Bake the naturally green mint cookies for about 10 minutes.

Natural Blue Icing

Pour the boiling water over the blue tea. Steep it for 10 minutes. Remove the tea bag and stir in the powdered sugar.

Instead of butterfly pea flower tea you can also make natural blue icing with red cabbage.

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Don’t want mint-flavored cookies? Make Naturally Green Sunflower Cookies instead!