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Girl Scout Thin Mint Brownies

Pre-heat oven 350

Ingredients

½ sleeve of thin mints crushed

1 cup of butter (melted and slightly cooled)              2/3 cup of cocoa powder

2 cups of sugar                                                            1 cup of flour

4 eggs (slightly beaten)                                               ½ tsp salt

1 1/2 tsp (1 1/2 cap full) vanilla extract                      ½ tsp baking powder

½ tsp (1/2 cap full) peppermint extract

Directions

1. Preheat the oven to 350.
2. Grease a 9×13 baking dish. (I use the butter wrappers to do this, I hate butter on my fingers) or you can use parchment paper.
3. Take half a sleeve of Girl Scout Thin Mint cookies, put them into the food processor, and pulse until they are either fine powder or chunky, depending on what you like. You can even put them in a Ziploc bag and smash them up, with a rolling pin, or a heavy pan, (this is more fun and one less thing to wash)
4. Melt butter in a medium-sized bowl, in the microwave, starting at 40 seconds and going down to 30 then 20 seconds, until melted. Let cool for about 5 minutes.
5. To the butter add the sugar, vanilla, peppermint extract, and eggs. Mix until combines. This is so easy just use a spoon, no point in pulling out the electric mixers.
6. You can add the flour, salt, baking powder, and cocoa powder, all at once to the butter mix, or you can do as I do and sift it in. (I like this step but then I am a Grandma). Gently mix the dry ingredients until combined, once again use the spoon.
7. Fold in as much of the cookie crumbs, as you want.
8. Evenly spread in your greased baking dish. 
9. Now the hard part, putting them in the oven and waiting 25-30 minutes for those yummy brownies to be done. After 25 minutes check to see if a toothpick comes out clean. If not lick the toothpick and wait another 5 minutes. Get a new toothpick and check again. If you like them fudgy you will want a little on the toothpick just not a lot if you like them cakey, check them at 27 minutes.
10. Cool until you can cut them cleanly with a knife and enjoy.

Note: Because the Thin Mints are covered in chocolate this adds an extra layer of gooey, but when they are cooled the chocolate hardens making the brownies firm, like cookies. If you are like me and like soft brownies put the brownies in the microwave for 5 to 10 seconds and they are just as good as new.

Hope you enjoy these delicious Girl Scout Thin Mint Brownies.

Where can you get Girl Scout Cookies

https://www.gsdigitalcookie.com/cookie/Landing/1/c802eba7-9ed0-4569-a4f0-1485f87d1211/en-US