Thin Mints

Crispy cocoa wafers coated in minty dark chocolate and nostalgia. # 335: Thin Mints

Tis the season for Girl Scout cookie turf wars at my local Safeway and BART station. I have to avert my eyes to avoid buying an armful of colorful boxes. They even take Venmo now, how dare they make it so easy!

I know they have a bunch of new flavors, but the top three can never be unseated: thin mints, samoas and tagalongs. If you’ve never had a thin mint, (first of all, I’m so sorry) they are basically a combo of a peppermint patty and an oreo without the filling. Your first bite is a little confusing, because they’re a bit dry but then you realize you can’t stop and you’ve eaten a quarter of the box in a fugue state.

Continuing on the cookie theme this week. Have you ever had a cookie jar? It feels like such an old-fashioned concept, but my glass pastry dome is basically the same thing in a different form. A cute way to hold baked goods on the counter so you remember to eat them before they go stale.

I didn’t end up using any peppermint extract, since I’ve had a literal mountain of Andes mints in my cabinet waiting for their moment to shine.

Brownie batter vibes.

Smells. So. Good.

The dough is super sticky, but a little flour and parchment paper convinced it to behave.

Somehow the cookie cutter looks tiny by itself but the actual cookies look big! Cookie optical illusions.

I ended up leaving the cookies in the oven after the baking time with the heat turned off to help them get as crispy as possible. Soft cake-y cookies would be delicious but all wrong for a thin mint!