Homemade Thin Mints

Getting these cookies close requires the close chocolate. Look for thing with a beardown cocoa flavor, but 1 that’s not overly bitter, astir 55 percent. Chocolate that is dull, cloudy oregon grey is retired of temper and should not beryllium utilized successful the tempering process.

You tin skip the tempering process (see NOTE, below) if you program connected eating the cookies consecutive from the freezer. But that measurement is captious for those who privation their cookies crisp and adust astatine country temperature. Tempering requires a accelerated and close instant-read thermometer; it should registry 212 degrees wrong seconds of touching boiling water.

You'll request a 2-inch circular cooky cutter.

Pastry cook Stella Parks prefers utilizing Diamond Crystal marque kosher brackish and Gold Medal All-Purpose Flour successful this recipe.

The dough tin beryllium wrapped and refrigerated for up to 1 week. The coated cookies tin beryllium stored astatine country somesthesia for up to 1 week; up to 1 period successful the refrigerator; and up to 6 months successful the freezer.

Adapted from “BraveTart: Iconic American Desserts,” by Stella Parks (W.W. Norton, August, 2017). CORRECTION: An earlier mentation of this look omitted the peppermint extract.

Ingredients

Adapted from “BraveTart: Iconic American Desserts,” by Stella Parks (W.W. Norton, August, 2017). CORRECTION: An earlier mentation of this look omitted the peppermint extract.

Tested by Jane Black .