The garden is in full swing over here at our house, and my fresh chocolate mint is trying to take over, as it likes to do. If you let it, it will grow like a weed...but it smells oh.so.divine. In the past, I've plucked the extra, unruly mint from the garden and discarded it, but no more, friends! No...from now on, I'm letting it grow however it wants and using it to make these deliciously minty cookies! Up until now, I've mainly just used my fresh mint to infuse teas. A cookie craving hit me the other day, though, and these were the wonderful result. After a quick google search, I discovered a recipe by Andrea Bemis. She brilliantly steeped melted butter with fresh mint, which you then strain and use in the cookie batter. This perfectly infuses the butter with the flavor of fresh mint. It comes through well in the finished cookies, but isn't completely over-powering. If you are a mint chocolate chip fan, you MUST try these! Or, if you have an over-abundance of