I don’t know about you, but when those girls knocked on my
door selling their cookies, it was very hard to say no.
1- they’re mini entrepeneurs. you HAVE to support them!
2- those thin mint cookies were just too hard to pass up!
….until I found out what was in them!
Tonight, I was craving them, so I healthified the recipe on the back of my coconut flour
and used some leftover chocolates and voila!
…a PERFECT, super heathified version
to my childhood favorite Girl Scout
Thin Mint Cookies.
ENJOY!
Healthy Girl Scout Thin Mint Cookies
What You Need:
3/4 cup + 2 Tbsp Almond Meal/Flour
1/4 cup Coconut Flour
8 Tbsp coconut oil
1/2 cup coconut palm sugar
1 1/2 tsp vanilla
or 2 big bars or 8 mini dark chocolate mint bars
1 whole egg
(optional)mint extract
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees
- Mix the coconut oil and sugar until blended
- Beat in egg and vanilla
- Mix the coconut and almond flours in separate bowl
- Add the coconut oil, sugar, vanilla, egg mixture until smooth and well blended
- Drop dough by the teasponful onto a pre-greased (with coconut oil) cookie sheet (They should be approx 2 inches apart)
- Bake about 10-12 min or until brown on edges.
- Remove from oven and lightly pat down each cookie down to make them flatter (you can use the back of a spoon)
- Place in freezer for a few minutes to cool
- Meanwhile, heat up chocolate on low in a saucepan, stirring until melted so it doesn’t burn
- Take cookies out of oven and place approx 1 dollop of melted chocolate onto the top of each cookie. Use a spoon or pastry brush to spread down the sides.
- Place back in fridge for approx 5 minutes until chocolate hardens and voila – ready to eat!
*If you want to make the cookie perfect (just like the Girl Scout cookies (chocolate on top and bottom)), after you take the cookies out of freezer with melted chocolate on them, flip the cookies, add more chocolate to the bottom and place back into fridge so all sides are coated.
*For best results- serve cold – leave in fridge overnight- crunchy and so yummy!
Enjoy!
be girly. be creative. be well.
xo
be well,
arielle
