Start by grabbing all of your needed ingrdients and preheating your oven to 350 degrees F. Grab a parchment lined baking tray.
In an electric mixer on medium speed combine your melted butter and white sugar. Once this is mixed well and creamed together, add in your cocoa powder using a sifter to prevent any clumps.
Once combined, add in applesauce, eggs and vanilla.
In a separate bowl combine flour, baking soda and salt and then gradually add this to the wet mixture and mix until combined, but don't over mix!
Scoop out 2 tbsp ish sized balls of cookie dough. Roll this in to a ball in your palm and then flatten it and stick your thin mint chocolate in the centre, pulling up the sides around it and re-rolling in to a ball. Do this to all the dough until you have 12-14 cookies.
Add your icing sugar to a small shallow plate and roll each stuffed ball of cookie dough in the icing sugar.
Stick these on your parchment lined baking sheet and dust with the crushed candy cane. Bake for 10-12 minutes.
Let these cool before digging in. Makes about a dozen cookies.
