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| For our cookie, we started with a basic shortbread recipe and added a little cocoa powder to the dry ingredients. To the butter and sugar, we added peppermint extract to get that mint flavor that we’ve all come to know and love in our Thin Mints. (Credit: Alexis Murphy) Click Here For The Full Story from TheDailyMeal.com |
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| For our cookie, we started with a basic shortbread recipe and added a little cocoa powder to the dry ingredients. To the butter and sugar, we added peppermint extract to get that mint flavor that we’ve all come to know and love in our Thin Mints. (Credit: Alexis Murphy) Click Here For The Full Story from TheDailyMeal.com |
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| They’re not called Thin Mints for nothing. To get our cookies nice and skinny, we rolled the dough out into golf ball-sized rounds and gave them a little smash with the bottom of a glass. (Credit: Alexis Murphy) Click Here For The Full Story from TheDailyMeal.com |
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| Our baked cookies were crisp, rustically round, and delicious. So delicious that some may have met their demise before getting a coat of chocolate icing. (Credit: Alexis Murphy) Click Here For The Full Story from TheDailyMeal.com |
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| Speaking of which, we were pretty darn sure about one thing when it came to the chocolate coat of a thin mint: it had to be dark chocolate. A lot of imitation recipes out there just melt chocolate and butter together for a Thin Mint’s coat, but we got ambitious and added a little peppermint extract to it, too. (Credit: Alexis Murphy) Click Here For The Full Story from TheDailyMeal.com |
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| Now it’s time for some skinny dipping (literally!). First we dunked the bottom of the cookie in a bath of peppermint dark chocolate before placing it on a parchment-lined baking sheet to be showered in a drizzle of the chocolate on top. (Credit: Alexis Murphy) Click Here For The Full Story from TheDailyMeal.com |
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| Our Thin Mints we’re chocolaty, fulfilling, and homespun. They retained all of the delicious qualities we love in the Girl Scouts’ original cookie, with just a hint of homemade flair. (Credit: Alexis Murphy) Click Here For The Full Story from TheDailyMeal.com |
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