Homemade Thin Mint Girl Scout Cookies

Yum, who doesn't love girl scout cookies? This week I get to cross 'thin mints' off my list of recipes to try. This recipe is very delicious and tastes close to the real cookie. Yum yum.

The recipe we used can be found here.

You will need:

1 1/4 cup flour
1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1/4 tsp salt
1/2 cup butter, softened
1 cup sugar
1 egg
1/2 teaspoon mint extract
chocolate candy coating (we used dark chocolate mint, yum!)

The how to:
1. Beat butter until creamy. Add the sugar and beat until well mixed. Beat in egg and mint extract.
2. Sift flour, cocoa, and salt together in bowl. Add flour mixture slowly into the creamed mixture and beat until well mixed.
3. Divide dough in half. On a lightly floured surface roll dough into two 1 1/2 inch diameter cylinders. Wrap each in waxed paper and refrigerate for about an hour. Then put into the freezer for half an hour or so.
4. Preheat oven to 350. Slice cookies into 1/4 inch pieces and bake 10 to 12 minutes. We baked ours until they were nice and crunchy.
5. Melt chocolate (you can add mint extract to your melted chocolate if you desire) and frost cookies, dip cookies, or drizzle chocolate over cookies - whichever you prefer. Place on waxed paper to harden.

So photogenic!