Description
Indulgent no-bake thin mint cookie truffles bring a delightful twist to classic Girl Scout cookie flavors. Chocolate-coated mint morsels melt effortlessly on your palate, offering a cool, crisp escape into sweet bliss.
Ingredients
Scale
Main Ingredients:
- 1 box (9 ounces or 255 grams) Thin Mint cookies
- 4 ounces (115 grams) cream cheese
- 8 ounces (225 grams) semi-sweet or dark chocolate
Garnish and Decorative Ingredients:
- ¼ cup (40 grams) crushed Thin Mint cookies or white chocolate drizzle or sprinkles (optional)
Instructions
- Crush Thin Mint cookies in a food processor until they transform into a uniform, fine powder-like texture.
- Transfer the cookie crumbs to a mixing bowl, ensuring smooth, consistent ground texture.
- Incorporate cream cheese into the cookie crumbs, blending thoroughly until a cohesive, moldable mixture develops.
- Roll the combined mixture into compact, uniform spherical shapes, using gentle pressure to create smooth truffles.
- Place the formed truffles on a parchment-lined tray, then transfer to the refrigerator for initial chilling.
- Melt chocolate in a double boiler or microwave, stirring until achieving a silky, glossy consistency.
- Carefully immerse each chilled truffle into the melted chocolate, ensuring complete and even coating.
- Gently lift truffles from chocolate using a fork, allowing excess to drip back into the chocolate vessel.
- Delicately sprinkle reserved cookie crumbs atop each chocolate-covered truffle for decorative garnish.
- Return the decorated truffles to the refrigerator, allowing them to set and solidify for approximately 15 minutes.
- Once chocolate has hardened, transfer truffles to a serving platter and enjoy the decadent, cool treat.
Notes
- Pulse cookies carefully to avoid over-processing, which can make the mixture too dense and compact for perfect truffle texture.
- For gluten-free option, substitute Thin Mint cookies with gluten-free chocolate mint cookies or make a homemade version using gluten-free chocolate wafers.
- Chill truffles for at least 30 minutes before serving to help them set firmly and develop a more intense flavor profile.
- If food processor isn’t available, place cookies in a sealed plastic bag and crush with a rolling pin for a similar fine crumb consistency.
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 50 minutes
- Category: Desserts, Snacks
- Method: Blending
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 16
- Calories: 170
- Sugar: 10 g
- Sodium: 120 mg
- Fat: 10 g
- Saturated Fat: 5 g
- Unsaturated Fat: 4.5 g
- Trans Fat: 0 g
- Carbohydrates: 19 g
- Fiber: 1 g
- Protein: 2 g
- Cholesterol: 20 mg