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Homemade Thin Mint Cookie Recipe

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Homemade Thin Mint Cookie Recipe

I love Girls Scout Cookies!  When we were younger, our Mom would let each of us pick out a box of cookies.

We would hide them under our beds and savor them as long as we could!  I was known to be the sneaky one in the family, and I would sneak into my sisters’ rooms and find their hidden stashes of Girl Scout Cookies.

I always knew the sisters who ordered Thin Mints would never notice me taking one because they came with more cookies than the other flavors. 🙂  Now I will never have to steal cookies again!

Homemade thin mints

Homemade Thin Mint Cookie Recipe

These taste just like the real Girl Scout Cookie Thin Mints. Now you can eat these delicious mint cookies year round!
Serving48
Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes
Total Time 40 minutes
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Ingredients

  • 1 cup unsalted butter, softened
  • 1 cup powdered sugar
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 1 cup unsweetened cocoa
  • ¾ teaspoon salt
  • 1 ½ cups flour

Mint Chocolate Coating

  • 2 cups semi sweet chocolate chips
  • 1 ½ teaspoons peppermint extract

Equipment

Instructions

  1. In a large mixing bowl, beat butter until light and fluffy.  Add powdered sugar and mix until combined.  Mix in vanilla, salt and cocoa.  Add flour and mix until combined, but slightly crumbly.  Chill dough in the refrigerator for 20 minutes. 
  2. Remove dough from the fridge and knead a few times on a lightly floured surface to warm up. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
  3. On a lightly floured surface, roll out dough to 1/8" in thickness.  Use a 1-1/2" cookie cutter to cut circles of dough (or whatever shape or size you prefer). Place cut circles on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. 
  4. Bake cookies for 9-10 minutes, or until edges are set. Let cookies cool completely. After cookies are cool, place chocolate chips in a microwave-safe bowl. Microwave in 30-second increments until melted. Stir in peppermint extract until smooth. Place cookies in the chocolate one at a time, using a fork to flip and lift cookie out of the chocolate. Transfer the chocolate covered cookie to a baking sheet lined with wax or parchment paper. 
  5. Repeat with remaining cookies. Let chocolate harden before serving.  You can place cookies in the refrigerator to set the chocolate faster.

Nutrition

Calories: 106 kcal · Carbohydrates: 10 g · Protein: 1 g · Fat: 7 g · Saturated Fat: 4 g · Trans Fat: 1 g · Cholesterol: 11 mg · Sodium: 38 mg · Potassium: 76 mg · Fiber: 1 g · Sugar: 5 g · Vitamin A: 122 IU · Calcium: 9 mg · Iron: 1 mg
Cuisine: American
Course: Dessert
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(Recipe adapted from Tracey’s Culinary Adventures)

Published: March 5, 2013Updated: May 8, 2024

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Questions & Reviews

  1. Life in a Small Town says:
    I'm definitely going to try these! Thanks!
  2. Martha Anne says:
    Oh are these just like the girl guide cookies? If so... I am definitely making these... my belly will thank me :)
  3. Paige Flamm says:
    These are a big favorite in our house! Thanks for sharing!

    Paige Flamm
    http://thehappyflammily.blogspot.com
  4. Blair Lonergan says:
    Yum. These look delicious! Don't we all have such great memories of Girl Scout cookies from childhood?! I guess we never outgrow some things!
  5. Leslie @ Violet Imperfection says:
    Oh my goodness, these look so delicious.

    Thanks for sharing your favorite post at Raising Imperfection! We feature our favorites on Friday, make sure to come back and check.
    Leslie
  6. Raising Reagan says:
    These just look evil! I love thin mints. They are the one girl scout cookie I will absolutely blow a 700 calorie workout at the gym for! LOL

    Thank you for linking to Raising Imperfection.
    Please come back Friday to see if you were featured. :)

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  7. Cynthia Landrie says:
    I love girl scout cookies and thin mints have always been a favorite of mine! For some crazy reason, we do not get Girl Scout selling in our neighborhood! I guess I will have to make these!

    Thank you for linking up to the In and Out of the Kitchen party! I hope you will come back next week!

    Cynthia at http://FeedingBig.com
  8. Laurie@SimplyCreatingHome says:
    Oh yum! These look fabulous. Thin mints are my household's favorite Girl Scout cookie, but when we've eaten them all, we're all a little sad. I will be pinning this for future reference. Thanks for sharing!
  9. Allison {A Glimpse Inside} says:
    Oh my goodness! Thin Mints are the best ever and I think it would be so dangerous if I made my own!
    Thanks for linking up to this week's Catch a Glimpse party! I'll be featuring this tomorrow. :)
  10. Raising Reagan says:
    Congratulations Elyse ~

    I featured your post today over at Raising Reagan for Feature Fridays!
    Don't forget to put the Feature button on your blog! Hope to see you Sunday :)

    http://raising-reagan.com/2013/03/15/feature-friday-week-18/

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  11. KC Coake says:
    They look so yummy! Since I now have 2 Girl Scouts and ordered twice as many cookies this year...ummm I won't be needing this yummy recipe for some time to come. It will be fun to be able to make them when our cookies are finally gone. ;-)
    Thanks so much for linking up at my Real Family Fun link party.
    KC
  12. Monica Pruett says:
    The girl scouts better watch out! Those look good - yum! Pinned it. Thanks for sharing at Family Fun Friday!
    Monica
    http://happyandblessedhome.com
  13. Polkadot-pretties says:
    Thank you for linking up @ Craft, Create & Inspire linky party last weekend ..

    Your awesome project is featured this week!

    I would love for you to come and join us again this weekend ( this weeks party is now live )

    Claire @ Polkadot pretties
  14. Melissa Whitcher says:
    Hi Ladies,

    Thank you for linking up to our Simply Create Link Party. I just wanted to stop by really quickly and let you know that I featured these great thin mint cookies as part of a compilation of 15 Teacher Appreciation gifts. Trust you all are having a great week. :0)

    Melissa
    redflycreations.com
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  16. Kobe says:
    should there be an egg or something in the recipe
  17. Cyd says:
    No egg! They are so delicious! ENJOY!
  18. Racha says:
    I am a very seasoned baker and I did not care for these. They were a bit bitter, like there was too much cocoa and/or not enough sugar. I LOVE Thin Mints but these did not come out even close. I'll be trying other recipes for these cookies.
  19. Monna says:
    I made these for my son. He loves them!!! I think the next time I make them I will try using the chocolate made especially for dipping as in dipping strawberries. We have to keep these in the fridge to keep the coating from melting and this is winter. Anyway, my son says they taste like the real thing. Thanks.
  20. Leanne says:
    Big flop! Are you sure the amount of cocoa is printed right? It seems like a lot... I liked the flavour of the dough (so did my 2 year old daughter) but it was SO dry and crumbly, after fighting to get half a batch rolled out and only a dozen cookies in the oven, I gave up! The remainder I just crumbled onto the other cookie sheet to bake and use for ice cream topping or something.... :o(
  21. furious master-baker says:
    why wont my chocolate stay melted when i put in the mint extract? i moved it to a double boiler with the mint in the chocolate already and it wont even re-melt.
  22. Brandi says:
    I just made these and they turned out really bitter. I don't know what went wrong. I didn't use unsalted butter but I don't think that's what it was.
  23. Phyllis Holmes says:
    I got your recipe from "The Bitter Side of Sweet". Thanks to her for referring me to you. I am looking forward to trying these yummy looking cookies! These are my favorite Girl Scout cookies, and I have always wanted to get a recipe to make them myself. Thanks for sharing the recipe, I'll let you know how they turn out! Good luck in all you're doing!
  24. Valerie K. says:
    Being 7 months pregnant, I was totally craving thin mints and hoped this would satisfy my craving. They were ok, but I was disappointed. The cookie part was very crumbly and for some reason as they baked, the bottom side of the cookie kind of hollowed out. When I took them off the parchment paper some of them crumbled before they even got to the cooling rack. I think rolling them 1/8 inch is too thin. Also, when I melted the chocolate chips in the microwave, the chocolate seized up. I guess the wattage on my microwave is pretty high and the chocolate got too hot too quickly. I ended up spreading the chocolate on top of the cookies like frosting since there was no way I could dip them. If I try these again, I will use a double boiler to melt the chocolate instead. The cookies were edible, but not close enough to the real thing.
  25. Valerie K. says:
    As a follow up to my comment above: now that I read the original recipe from Tracey's culinary adventures, she says to microwave the chocolate at 50% power. I think that's an important piece of information to include in the recipe as chocolate will seize if heated too quickly.
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