Mint Chocolate Thins

My favourite ice cream flavour is mint chocolate. It can be in chip form, or chocolate ice cream with mint flavouring (Marble Slab), or the President's Choice version with actual mint leaves in it. I even found a tea, at David's Tea, that satisfies my mint chocolate sweet tooth. Girl Guides sell mint chocolate cookies. Very yummy. So, when I came across this recipe on the Today's Parent website, I had to try it out. They are a little bit like the Girl Guide cookies, and this recipe made about 7 dozen cookies.

http://recipes.todaysparent.com/Recipes/View/Chocolate_Mint_Thins


The biggest problem? My husband hates mint flavouring in his food. He says it makes him think he is eating toothpaste. My kids like the cookies, so they can help me out in eating them. I am already starting to put back on some of my winter weight. I really need to cut back on the sweets.

My son helped me measure the dry ingredients. The recipe says kids can also help form the cookie dough into logs, but this might work better with children older than three years old. I did let him help me cut the dough into flat discs, after it had chilled in the fridge for a few hours. He was also good at placing the cookies on the baking sheet. I think he was most talented at eating the cookies, though.

Looks like a giant Tootsie Roll

Chillin' in the fridge

Cutting thins

My son helped place these

Just a little over done

Coating the cookies in chocolate is also a kid friendly task. I added a little butter to the chocolate squares when I melted them, to make the chocolate softer when it dried. The chocolate was not as liquid as I thought it would be, so I ended up spreading the coating onto the cookies, instead of dipping them. Maybe next time I will heat the chocolate to a higher temperature.

All in all, the cookies were easy to make, not too expensive with regards to ingredients, and the yield was enormous. These might work well as gifts. The recipe suggests them as a bake sale item, but I am not sure how many schools do bake sales nowadays, with numerous food allergies being identified. My kids both gave them thumbs up. Unlike, the Cranberry Fairy Fingers. My daughter refuses to eat them, but my son will.

http://www.davidstea.com/our-teas/rooibos/mint-chocolate-rooibos

Seriously, these are two very tasty foods.

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