Sure, Christmas, Halloween, and Valentine’s Day are some of the major dessert-forward holidays. However, come late winter, there’s only one very special time of the year — Girl Scout Cookie Season, or for many, thin mint season. The delicate chocolate coating on the outside houses a mint-infused chocolate cookie on the inside, a perfect bite of rich and refreshing. It’s hard to stop eating, but you know that you have to restrain yourself. After all, you can only get the cookies one time out of the year. What if you didn’t have to tame yourself, and better yet, you could make these greatest-of-all-time cookies any time of the year?
There’s a slew of recipes flooding the internet, but many of them don’t cut it. This recipe from kawaiisweetworld couldn’t make the process of baking-to-eating simpler.
The dough is a no-fuss cutout cookie dough, which doesn’t require a leavener. Once the butter, sugar, and egg are creamed together, the YouTuber of kawaiisweetworld, Rachel, adds peppermint extract. Now, many might wonder — why can’t I use mint? Well if you use normal mint extract, it’ll taste less like thin mints and more like chocolate cookies flavored with toothpaste.
The dry ingredients are added in batches, preventing the flour from spewing across your kitchen counters.
After you let the dough chill in the refrigerator, you roll it out like a sugar cookie. Make sure your surface and rolling pin are floured, or else the dough will stick.
She has the traditional circle cut, but you can use other shapes like a flower. Just make sure the shape isn’t too complex. Once the cookie bakes, the cookie shape becomes less clear and sharp.
Once the cookies bake and chill, you can do the messy part— dipping the cookies. Rachel uses candy melts, but you can also use chocolate chips melted and loosened with coconut oil. Use a fork to submerge the cookie on all sides. Gently tap the cookie against the side of the bowl — this removes the excess chocolate.
The hardest part is waiting for the chocolate shell to harden up because, honestly, I just want to eat them super fast! You may think that having thin mints any time of the year makes these cookies less special, but after you taste the from-scratch version, you’ll want to eat these cookies more and more. This recipe opens the floodgates on the thin mint desires!
The full video is below!