GF DF Thin Mints fom Glugle

[JLH]

Cookies –

■¾ cup Almond Flour (packed)
■½ cup Coconut Flour
■¼ cup Cocoa Powder
■¼ tsp Salt
■¼ cup Coconut Oil
■1 cup Coconut Sugar
■1 ½ tbsp Almond Milk
■1 Egg
■1 tsp Peppermint Extract
Coating -

■2 cups Chocolate Chips
■2 tbsp Coconut Oil
■1 tsp Peppermint Extract
Directions:

1.In a medium bowl, mix the almond flour, coconut flour, cocoa powder, and salt. Set aside.
2.In a large bowl (or stand mixer), mix together coconut oil and coconut sugar. It will be clumpy, but mix as well as possible.
3.While mixing, slowly add the almond milk.
4.Add the egg.
5.Add the peppermint extract.
6.After it is all well mixed, slowly add the flour mixture.
7.It should be easy to gather into a ball and not sticky when done.
8.Place ball of dough onto an easy-to-work-with surface, like a sil-pat.
9.Roll out into a log. (If it reminds you of something you don’t want to be reminded of, like it did me, you are doing it right. Sorry.)
10.Flatten the ends, and wrap the log in plastic wrap.
11.Stick it into the freezer for at least an hour.
12.Take out the log and cut slices about ¼ inch thick.
13.Place them on parchment paper on your cookie sheet (s).
14.Heat your oven to 350 degrees F. This will give the cookies a few minutes to thaw before you bake them.
15.Bake for 12 minutes. Test with your finger to see if the top of a cookie has a little give to it. If it gives too much, bake for another minute. You just want a little bit of give.
16.Let the cookies cool for at least ½ hour before coating with chocolate.
17.Melt chocolate chips and coconut oil. I used Alisa’s method of microwaving for 1 minute. Then, adding ten seconds each shot until I could stir it up. You could also use a double boiler as she also recommend.
18.Stir in the peppermint extract.
19.Place a few cookies in the coating mixture.
20.Coat well.
21.Remove from coating with two forks (Alisa’s method, again) and place on parchment paper.
22.Place in the refrigerator to harden the coating; about 20 minutes.
23.Store in the refrigerator.

[JLH]

Making Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free Thin Mint Collage
Notes:

■If you don’t want to use coconut sugar or have a hard time finding it and don’t mind using regular sugar instead, just use one cup of regular sugar in place of the coconut sugar.
■Coconut sugar has a stronger taste than regular sugar, so I added more peppermint extract. If you use regular sugar instead, you may want to tone down the peppermint extract. (I also really like peppermint.)
■The white flecks on the cookies before they are cooked are coconut oil bits. It didn’t affect the taste at all and disappeared after baking.
■If wanting a vegan recipe, please refer to Alisa’s Dairy-Free Girl Scout Thin Mint Cookie recipe for the egg replacer that she used.
■When gathering the batter into a ball, mine was stuck to the sides, but it came off easily with the spoon. Then it gathered into the ball well.
■If you are more impatient, instead of making a log of the dough and freezing it, you can roll it out with a rolling pin. (Seems more like mashing than rolling to me, but… eh.) Please refer to Alisa’s Dairy-Free Girl Scout Thin Mint Cookie recipe for the method. I didn’t attempt rolling with a pin because I suck at using a rolling pin. So I came up with the log and freeze method instead.
■The log and freeze method is also advantageous if you don’t want to make all of the cookies at once. You can cut the dough in half, and freeze the other half for later.
■Even though this makes 36 cookies, they don’t spread, so I was able to fit all of them on my large cookie sheet to bake.
■I store the cookies in the refrigerator because when I brought them out, the coating got soft and a tad melty. I didn’t like that.
■I had some left over coating, and you cannot waste chocolate. I believe it is actually a felony. I just put a piece of parchment paper onto a plate and poured the rest of the coating on it. Stuck it in the fridge and have been munching on it. Yum! Peppermint chocolate!

[MBombardier]

These sound yummy!! And I agree with you--it is a felony to waste chocolate, especially if it has peppermint flavoring...