Mint Chocolate Cupcakes

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.