Homemade Thin Mint recipe
Help!! I’ve just discovered an amazing recipe for homemade Thin Mints. And as skeptical as I was when I was making these, once I gave them a little bit of time to chill in the freezer, they went from pretty good to INCREDIBLE!! I don’t know that I’d call them a “clone” of the original as the recipe maker did, but they don’t have to be clones, because they are better!
Even though I recently signed my daughter up as an independent Girl Scout, I’m a bit anti-cookie sales. I know, I know. I’m probably going to Girl Scout jail for this. But between the unhealthy and socially irresponsible ingredients and the all-out cookie wars I’ve heard parents get into about these, not to mention the environmental impacts of packaged goods and cheap, plastic prizes, it just seems to have lost its original wholesome purpose. And it doesn’t quite match my idea of what this program is about. It feels commercial and grabby and thoughtless, which is not what Girl Scouts stands for at all. And I know this is not the approach taken by all the girls and families and troops, but there are just too many factors I dislike to be willing to participate in this aspect of scouting.
Anywho, it did get me reminiscing for some good ol Girl Scout cookies. And while I disagree with many of the ingredients and steps involved in the boxed cookies, I still found myself wondering if we just couldn’t have a little taste of GS cookies. And that’s when I found this. This wickedly good and dangerous recipe. I’m still wondering if just about anything covered in the chocolate mint sauce found at the end would taste the same, but for now, these are pretty rad. I may try using the homemade Oreo cookies as a base someday; I’ll let ya know how that goes! In the meantime, trips to our freezer have become a little too frequent…
