If you love chocolate + mint, these gluten free chocolate mint chip cookies are for you. As a kid (pre-gluten free days) I loooooved Thin Mints (I was a Girl Scout for ~10 years!) and mint chocolate chip ice cream (still do). I’ve yet to translate this love into a towering gluten free mint chocolate chip layer cake (one day!), but I have made chocolate peppermint shortbread and have wanted to make a chewy bakery style chocolate mint cookie for a while now. Soooooo what better time to recipe test than the winter months right before the holidays! I ended up finding and using the Guittard gluten free mint baking…
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Gluten Free Chocolate Peppermint Shortbread
Thin Mints were my absolute favorite Girl Scout cookie. Samoas were a close second, but Thin Mints won every time. I’d definitely sell more than I ended up eating, thank goodness, but there were a few boxes of those buttery, melt-in-your-mouth chocolate shortbready cookies waiting for me every year when I donned my saleswoman attitude and took to the streets of Eagle Point neighborhoods, heralding the springtime revelation that is all Girl Scout cookies. I was a proud scout for 10 years, starting with Daisies, then graduating to Brownies, then Juniors, then Cadets, then Seniors (for those who aren’t familiar with the Girl Scout organization, there are different titles/names for…
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Dark Chocolate Peppermint Cake Truffles
Ever develop a new recipe that you know will be a success, and then something goes terribly, horribly wrong? These truffles are the spiteful result of just that – though honestly, the only thing that was truly a disaster was the Italian buttercream frosting that I completely flubbed to top the chocolate peppermint cupcakes I had made. The cupcakes themselves were divine, the perfect mix of deep dark fudgey chocolate and crisp, winter peppermint that feels like candy canes and hot chocolate and everything lovely about the holidays. You’re more than welcome to make a dozen cupcakes out of the cake recipe below (or double it for a normal, two-dozen…
