Thin Mint Cookies

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Description

If you love chocolate and mint you are sure to love this homemade version of the Girl Scout Cookies.

Ingredients

  • 1 ¼ cups all-purpose flour
  • ½ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
  • ¼ teaspoon salt
  • ½ cup butter, softened
  • 1 cup white sugar
  • 1 egg
  • ½ teaspoon mint extract
  • 3 (1 ounce) squares semisweet chocolate, chopped
  • ¼ cup butter

Instructions

  1. Beat 1/2 cup butter in a large bowl until creamy. Add sugar and beat until mixed well. Beat in egg and mint extract.
  2. Sift flour
  3. cocoa
  4. and salt together into a small bowl. Add flour mixture
  5. in two portions
  6. into creamed mixture
  7. beating well after each addition.
  8. Divide dough in half. Roll dough on a lightly floured surface into two 1 1/2-inch diameter cylinders. Wrap each cylinder in waxed paper; refrigerate 5 hours.
  9. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Place both cylinders in the freezer 30 minutes before baking.
  10. Working with one cylinder at a time
  11. slice 1/4-inch-thick pieces with a very sharp knife. Place on cookie sheets about 1 1/2 inches apart.
  12. Bake in the preheated oven
  13. 10 to 12 minutes.
  14. Melt chocolate and 1/4 cup butter in a double boiler or the microwave. Drizzle over warm cookies. Place cookies on a wire rack to cool and harden completely.

Servings: 18

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