Thin Mint Cookies

Homemade Copycat Thin Mint Cookies amongst a deep, nighttime chocolate cookie coated inwards a thick layer of minty chocolate. Don’t hold off for a Girl Scout to halt past times your identify – proceed a batch inwards the freezer yr round!

A long, long fourth dimension ago, I was a Girl Scout … as well as a Brownie earlier that.  And I bet if I got existent serious I could uncovering my onetime badges as well as sash.  Yes I used to sell Girl Scout cookies as well as yes they’ve been around for a long, long time.  But instantly I don’t know whatever Girl Scouts as well as nobody asked me if I wanted to lodge cookies this year.  So I did what whatever bakery would do, as well as made my own!

 

After researching several pop Thin Mint cookie recipes, I flora they’re all really like as well as all await amazing.  Deciding which recipe to usage tin give the sack be agonizing – ha ha.

I latterly made some wonderful Chocolate Wafer Cookies so I idea I’d larn downward my ain path as well as adjust that recipe past times omitting the espresso powder.

These cookies were rolled extra sparse to nearly 1/8-inch as well as used Special Dark Cocoa Powder inwards the mix.  If I yell upward correctly Thin Mints accept a really nighttime chocolate cookie on the inside.

Most of my inquiry flora recipes recommending semi-sweet chocolate chips every bit the coating.

But ane time again I was thinking nearly the nighttime chocolate on the cookies I remembered.  I went amongst nighttime chocolate chips for the coating as well as tested ii dissimilar brands.

We gustatory modality tested nighttime chocolate chips to uncovering the best for coating these cookies.

While the gustatory modality of the ii dissimilar nighttime chocolate chips were really much the same, the dipping texture as well as concluding production was a fiddling improve amongst the Toll House Dark Chocolate Chips.  The other build I used was Hershey’s Dark Chocolate Chips.  The Toll House morsels are total size chips as well as the Hershey’s are mini’s therefore I’m certain that made the departure inwards the melting factor.

These Thin Mint Cookies build lovely fiddling gifts laid upward to pop inwards the freezer.

The cookies are improve kept inwards the fridge or freezer since the chocolate is non genuinely tempered to preclude melting on your fingers.

 

Are yous laid upward for a stack inwards your freezer?

Be certain to cheque the peppermint as well as adjust the amount to your ain taste.  The recipe every bit written below seemed but nearly right to us!

 

Don’t forget to portion … or not!

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Thin Mint Cookies

Prep Time

30 mins

Cook Time

10 mins

Total Time

1 hr 40 mins

 

A delicious Girl Scout cookie copycat!

Course:

Cookies

Servings: 48 cookies

Author: Tricia

Ingredients

• 
  1 ¼
  cups
  granulated sugar
  


• 
  ½
  cup
  unsalted butter,
  room temperature
  


• 
  1
  egg
  


• 
  1
  teaspoon
  vanilla extract
  


• 
  1 ½
  cups
  all-purpose flour
  


• 
  ½
  cup
  Special Dark Chocolate Hershey’s Cocoa,
  unsweetened
  


• 
  ¾
  teaspoon
  salt
  


• 
  ½
  teaspoon
  baking powder
  


• 
  1-2
  teaspoons
  peppermint extract, to taste
  (not spearmint)
  


• 
  2 to 4
  cups
  dark chocolate chips 
  (see regime notation below)
  

Instructions

1. 
   
   In a large mixing bowl vanquish the granulated carbohydrate as well as butter until fluffy.  Beat inwards the egg as well as vanilla until combined.  In a divide modest bowl whisk together the flour, salt, cocoa as well as baking powder.  Add the flour mixture to the butter as well as vanquish until combined.  Transfer the dough to a purse or encompass amongst plastic wrap.  Refrigerate for at to the lowest degree an hour.
   
   


2. 
   
   Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Roll dough out to 1/8 inch thick on a large slice of parchment or wax paper.  Using a cookie or biscuit cutter, cutting dough into 2 inch rounds.  Bake on a parchment or Silpat lined baking canvass for 8-10 minutes.  Since the cookies are a really nighttime chocolate it may live difficult to say if they are done.  If yous get-go to aroma chocolate, the cookies are done.  Remove to a wire rack to cool.
   
   


3. 
   
   Melt 1 loving cup of chocolate chips inwards a deep 2-cup touchstone cup.  I e'er usage the microwave melting instructions on the private purse or label.  Melt the chips at 50% ability for 1 minute, as well as then stir. Repeat using 50% ability at xxx 2d increments until almost smooth.  Stir until all chips are melted as well as add together 1/4 teaspoon of peppermint extract.  Taste the chocolate as well as growth or decrease the extract depending on your preference.
   
   


4. 
   
   Dip a completely cooled cookie inwards the chocolate coating both sides.  Using a large serving or meat fork, concur the chocolate covered cookie over the melted chocolate tapping gently to take the excess.  Slide the Thin Mint onto wax paper.  Cool until the chocolate is laid as well as refrigerate or freeze until laid upward to serve!
   
   

Recipe Notes

• Toll House Dark Chocolate Chips worked best for me.  


• Note the broad make inwards the amount of chocolate chips.  You tin give the sack dip ane side of the cookie as well as usage nearly 2 cups or usage four cups to encompass the entire cookie.  They were bully either way.


• Wafer cookies are based on a recipe past times King Arthur Flour

 If yous beloved copycat cookies every bit much every bit nosotros do, cheque out our Little Debbie Copycat Oatmeal Cream Pies, as well as these fantastic Old-Fashioned Iced Oatmeal Cookies. Another delicious favorite are these copycat Lemon Coolers – a must endeavor for sure! And finally, cheque out our Orange Milano Cookies as well as if yous beloved a proficient Fig Newton, you’ll beloved our homemade Fig Newtons – therefore delicious!

I promise yous accept a wonderful calendar week – as well as thank yous therefore much for stopping by!

Tricia

Source: savingdessert.com