Mint Chocolate Cupcakes

Posted By: Amy 4 Comments on Mint Chocolate Cupcakes

Posted: Mar 15, 2013 Updated: Nov 4, 2022

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These Mint Chocolate Cupcakes are dense and moist then topped with a creamy chocolate mint flavored frosting and mint cookie crumbs.

I have a confession to make.  I avoid girl scouts.

I know, I know not nice, but those damn cookies are so addictive.  I see the girl scouts sitting over at their table by the exit doors when I go into the grocery store entrance doors.  The carts separate us so I can check out their location without making eye contact.   I make it a point to exit through the entrance doors when I leave to avoid buying the cookies or telling those cute girls in their green uniforms “no”.  I am weak.

I have another confession to make, I love going to tractor supply.  Don’t judge me.  It is such a cool place.  I get my chicken food, and other stuff my chickens don’t need.  I check out the farming magazines and look at the gardening signs, and even last week they had baby ducks and chicks.  Nothing cuter than baby ducks!  Took some i-phone pics and sent them to my husband threatening to bring some home.  I am a TOTAL DORK!

So, I didn’t see them when I cheerily grabbed my shopping cart out front of the Tractor Supply last week to make my trek through the store to see what I could see.  As I rounded the corner there they were….  the girl scouts and their Mom.  “Hello would you like to buy some girl scout cookies” they asked.  “Why, yes I would” I said, when I was saying silently in my head “NO, NO, NO I would not”

So that is how I ended up with a “few” boxes of girl scout cookies and yes you know which ones… the thin mints.  What other girl scout cookies are there.  Yes, I know the coconut ones are good, but really? Its’ all about the thin mints.

So here you have the best damn mint chocolate cupcakes you have ever eaten!  I really out did myself with these babies.  I blame it all on Tractor Supply and those cute little girl scouts.

P.S.- if you don’t have girl scout thin mints they sell all different just as addictive thin mint cookies in the cookie isle at your grocery store.

Mint Chocolate Cupcakes

5 from 1 vote

These Mint Chocolate Cupcakes are dense and moist then topped with a creamy chocolate mint flavored frosting and mint cookie crumbs.

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Prep Time20 minutes mins

Cook Time25 minutes mins

Total Time45 minutes mins

Servings: 12

Ingredients

Cupcake:

• 3/4 cup + 2 tablespoons of all-pupose flour
• 1 cups granulated white sugar
• 1/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
• 3/4 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 large egg
• 1/2 cup buttermilk
• 1/4 cup unsalted butter melted
• 1 tablespoon of vanilla extract or DAVE's syrup
• 1 cup hot coffee

Frosting:

• 8 ounces cream cheese room temperature
• 4 tablespoons unsalted butter room temperature
• 2 teaspoon vanilla extract or DAVE's syrup
• 1/4 cup bittersweet chocolate chips melted
• 1 cup confectioners sugar SIFTED
• 15 mint thin cookies crushed
• 6 minut thin cookies roughly crushed for topping

Instructions

Cupcake:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Line 12-cup muffin tin with paper liners and spray with baking spray.
• Add flour, sugar, coca, baking soda and salt to bowl and blend
• Add eggs, buttermilk, butter and vanilla to a standing mixer, and blend, add flour mixture slowly.
• Add coffee and blend, batter will be very runny.
• Using a measuring cup add batter to muffin tins till 2/3 full.
• Bake for 22-25 minutes, or until cake tester comes out clean.
• Remove and let tin cool on rack for at least one hour or until completely cool

Frosting:

• Add 15 cookies to a ziploc bag and crush with a rolling pen or pan.
• Add bittersweet chocolate to a small bowl and microwave for 1 minute, remove and stir. Cook an additional minute, and stir. Set aside
• In an electric mixer add cream cheese, butter and vanilla and beat till blended and creamed.
• Add chocolate and beat to blend.
• Add confectioners sugar slowly, mix till blended. Add crushed cookies and stir in by hand.
• When cupcakes are completely cooled, pipe frosting using a large opened piping tip and top with additional crushed cookies.

Course: Dessert

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