Girl Scout Thin Mint Cookies

You know I tried to make a copy cat version of the Girl Scout Thin Mint cookies.  While those cookies were good, they weren’t really like the Girl Scout cookies.

So I kept looking and found this recipe.  I started making the cookies and then was surprised when it said to put the dough in the fridge for 5 hours.

Yeah…so shockingly, I actually did put the dough in the fridge.  It makes sense, don’t get me wrong.  I just wasn’t planning on it.  There is a brief window of time where the dough is cold enough that you can shape but not too cold that it’s impossible.  Since I wsn’t sure how these were going to turn out, I didn’t take too much time to shape them into a cyclinder.  But for anyone who does want to make a pretty cookie, pay attention to that window of opportunity!

    

The cookies were good and had a perfect mint flavor. 

Are they like the Girl Scout version though?  Definitely no.  These are still more cookie than they are wafer…and I think that means I’m going to have to make this recipe up on my own…

 

Homemade Thin Mint Girl Scout Cookies

Today is my Girl Scout Cookie recipe day.  This time, I tried this recipe for thin mint cookies.

To be honest, I didn’t think these really tasted quite like the Girl Scout version (although the photo she included was beautiful). 

     

The cookie wasn’t really like a wafer as much as it was like a cookie.  And while I am known to sometimes deviate from the recipe, I followed this one exactly.

Oh well.  They were still good cookies!