Homemade Thin Mints
From jo_jo_ba 14 years ago
- 15 minutes to make
- Serves 40
Adapted slightly from Baking Bites, where Nicole has taken on the challenge of re-creating some of the great Girl Scout cookies from our childhood! These are fairly minty but play with it for your own tastes.
Ingredients
- 2 cups all purpose flour shopping list
- ¼ cup sweet rice flour shopping list
- 7 tbsp unsweetened dark cocoa powder shopping list
- ½ tsp salt shopping list
- ½ cup butter, room temperature shopping list
- 2 tbsp shortening shopping list
- 1 cup white sugar shopping list
- ¼ cup milk shopping list
- 5 tbsp vodka shopping list
- ½ tsp vanilla extract shopping list
- 1 tbsp peppermint extract shopping list
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- chocolate Coating shopping list
- 10 oz dark or semisweet chocolate shopping list
- 1 tbsp shortening shopping list
- ½ tsp peppermint extract shopping list
How to make it
- In a small bowl, whisk together flours, cocoa powder and salt.
- In a large bowl, cream together butter, shortening and sugar.
- Add milk, vodka and extracts. The mixture will look curdled.
- Gradually, add in the flour mixture until fully incorporated.
- Shape dough into two logs, about 1 ½” in diameter, wrap in plastic wrap and freeze for at least 1-2 hours, until dough is very firm.
- Preheat oven to 375F, line baking sheets with parchment or silicone.
- Slice dough into rounds not more than ¼” thick – otherwise will not be crisp.
- Place on the sheets fairly close together – they don’t spread that much.
- Bake for 11 minutes.
- Cool cookies completely on the sheet before dipping in chocolate.
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- Combine chocolate and shortening in a double boiler over simmering water.
- Melt until chocolate is smooth. Stir in the extract.
- Dip each cookie in melted chocolate and transfer to a wire rack set over a piece of wax paper to set up for at least 30 minutes – 1 hour.
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OOOoooooooooooooohhhhhhhh I LOVE mint!! HI FIVE! :+D
chefelaine
in Muskoka loved it
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Oh, this is just not fair. I have no resistance to such a treat. Of course, it is my fault, the lack of self-control that is, but I still feel like I can blame you for my pudgy belly. LOL.
Thanks from a neighbour for sharing and my hi-5.
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