Imagine this: Buttery, chocolate-enriched, delicate cookies drenched with a thin coating of dark chocolate laced with mint. You take a bite and chocolate and mint flavors permeate your taste buds in perfect harmony. The thin, minty chocolate coating hits you first, a perfect marriage to the crisp chocolate cookie found inside.
I like these cookies. (Understatement of the year.)
These cookies are absolutely delicious and completely addictive. They make a great substitution for Girl Scout Thin Mint cookies. In fact, if it’s not food blasphemy to say, these are even better. The unrefined sugar and high-quality cocoa powder in the cookies add a certain depth that I love. Oh, and these would be wonderful for Valentine Day, which is coming up. Double the recipe and give them out as gifts!
For the recipe, check them out at Mnn.com, by yours truly.
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I cannot wait to make these!
You rock.
Oh. My. My husband will be shouting hallelujah if I make these. We’re gluten free, organic, and we also won’t support Girl Scouts, so the Girl Scout version has been outlawed in our home for some years, but these are one of my dear husband’s all-time favorite cookies (and I won’t tell you how many he could eat at a time when his mom would buy them for him!) I’m off to look for some organic mint extract tomorrow, and I am SO going to make these! I bet that these will be yet another of your wonderful recipes that becomes legend in our house. I appreciate all the work and experimentation you put into your nourishing recipes more than you know. I’m a great cook, but with soon-to-be four babies in four years, I just don’t have all the time I would like to create and experiment. It’s great to use recipes when the guess-work has been removed for me. Thank you!
Yes please…when sugar is back on the menu…these are IN!! Nice job Kimmy!
Oh, what a perfect idea for a Valentine’s Day treat! I am for sure going to be making these! I am now craving them. Wish I had peppermint extract on hand. Dang.
I’ve been making a version of these for a few years. I made them for Christmas and both sides of the family RAVED. I made mine much smaller (because I didn’t have a round cookie cutter and ended up using the top of a glass bottle!) so they were bite size. Which was both wonderful and dangerous, all at the same time.
Now…to perfect the Peanut Butter Pattie/Tagalong.
Blessings,
Sandy
Perfect timing! My daughter went to her first Girl Scout cookie rally this evening, and wasn’t too happy to learn that all of their cookies contain milk. Now I can make her some of her own. Thank you!!
sound lovely- look forward to making them!
all good wishes,
Juliette
Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Thank you so much for sharing these. I, like many people, love thin mints. Just don’t love how they make the body feel. Thank you so much for sharing. 🙂
Thank you Kimi, for this healthier version of my favorite cookie. Can’t wait to make them!
Stopping by for the first time. I have had these tasty treats but never made them. Thanks for posting the how-to! Going to give them a try this year 🙂
Nice visiting with you!
Oh, I used to love thin mint cookies! But then my favorite flavors are mint and chocolate. These just sound so good I’m going to have to figure out a way to make ones I can eat. Hmm…
One word… YUM! Who doesn’t love thin mints! I love how you offered them as gluten free. Many readers will greatly appreciate that! thanks!
I made these last night and they turned out FANTASTIC! Thanks Kimi. 🙂 I powdered coconut sugar, then ended up adding about 1 1/2 tsp honey (they weren’t quite sweet enough for me). I used freshly milled soft white wheat flour and 1/8 tsp more peppermint extract. Parts of my dough were too sticky to roll, so I think next time I’ll divide it into two. I’m guessing the middle just wasn’t cold enough. With the scraps and super sticky parts, I rolled into balls and flattened them. In the end, I could hardly tell the difference between those I rolled/cut and those I shaped by hand. They really are so delicious!