My beautiful friend Tammy @sweettoothcravingsandmore on Instagram asked me to be part of a Girl Scout Cookie Reinvention collaboration.
I'm excited to see what the other amazing bakers have baked. Be sure to check out #girlscoutcookiereinventedcollab
To be honest with you all, I have never tasted a Girl Scout Cookie before but I did go onto the website to see what cookie flavours they had and from that I decided to reinvent one of their popular cookies - Thin Mints.
My reinvention of this cookie is more of a traditional looking cookie with peppermint flavour and added chocolate chips. I also added some drops of green colouring for it to look like peppermint.
These Mint Chocolate Chip Cookies are soft and so delicious with a lovely peppermint flavour which goes perfectly with the dark chocolate chips.
I'm not a big fan of peppermint flavour in desserts but these cookies have a lovely balance between the peppermint and chocolate which makes it not over-powering. I do love peppermint tea though.
Happy Baking xo
Mint Chocolate Chip Cookies
Ingredients
· 85 grams unsalted butter
· ⅔ cup caster sugar
· ¼ teaspoon salt
· ½ teaspoon baking powder
· ¼ teaspoon natural peppermint extract – Queens Fine Food
· 10 drops green food colouring – Queens Rainbow Food Colour
· 1 egg
· ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
· 1⅓ cups plain flour
· ½ cup dark chocolate chips
Instructions
1. Preheat oven to 180°C. Line trays with baking paper.
2. Using an electric beater, cream butter and sugar until pale and fluffy.
3. Add egg, peppermint extract and vanilla extract and mix until smooth.
4. Fold in sifted flour, baking powder and salt, a third at a time until combined. Avoid over mixing it.
5. Add in the dark chocolate chips.
6. Place one tablespoonful of cookie dough onto the baking tray. Make sure to leave about 1cm between each cookie.
7. Bake in oven for 10-12 minutes. Allow the cookies to cool on baking trays.
Tips
· These cookies do not spread much when baked; if you want flatter cookies, just push the cookies down a little before baking.
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