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{Homemade} GIRL SCOUT THIN MINTS

1 ¼ cups all-purpose flour
1 cup sugar
½ cup cocoa powder
¼ t salt
¼ t baking soda
¾ cup butter
3 T milk (any kind, dairy or non-)
1 t pure vanilla extract
?½ t pure peppermint extract

Chocolate Coating
4 cups semisweet chocolate chips
?2 T butter
½ t peppermint extract

Cookie:

In a food processor, pulse flour, sugar, cocoa powder, salt, and baking soda until combined. Add butter, milk, vanilla, and mint extract. Pulse a few more times until the mixture comes together. Transfer the mixture to a large bowl and knead it with your hands until it comes together and all the flour is incorporated. Chill the dough in the refrigerator for 1 hour.

Preheat the oven to 350* and line two large baking sheets with parchment paper or silpats. Remove dough from refrigerator. Roll a heaping teaspoon of cookie dough into a ball and place onto prepared baking sheets, leaving about 3 inches in between each ball. Evenly flatten the dough with your fingertips so that it is about ¼ inch thick and bake for 12-14 minutes. Let cool completely.

Chocolate coating:

Melt chocolate chips and butter until smooth using a double boiler or microwave. Stir in the mint extract. Dip cooled cookies into the chocolate using your fingers or a fork. Arrange cookies plates lined with parchment paper and refrigerate until coating sets.

- Chef Chloe's Home made Thin Mints