Thin Mint Cocktail

Grab your cocktail shaker together with bask the fabulous flavors of Thin Mints inwards cocktail form!  A Thin Mint cocktail is sure i tasty together with fun agency to bask those favorite flavors of Thin Mints.

Grab your cocktail shaker together with bask the fabulous flavors of Thin Mints inwards cocktail shape Thin Mint Cocktail


"Cookie season" is inwards total swing! And nosotros all know together with dearest the most pop Girl Scout cookie, right? the famous Thin Mints.  With their chocolate covered minty crispy wafer, they're difficult to resist, for sure.  The flavors's together with thus difficult to resist inwards fact, I fifty-fifty made my ain Christmas homemade Thin Mints this by Christmas.

But what if y'all don't wishing to bask a Thin Mint cookie  at all?  What if you'd exactly similar to bask those favorite flavors of Thin Mints inwards a dissimilar way?  Like inwards a fun cocktail form, perhaps.  Well, y'all can.

That's right, I've got a dissimilar agency to bask your favorite Girl Scout cookie ... the Thin Mint cocktail.

This fun cocktail is a combination of creme de menthe, creme de cacao, vanilla vodka, together with Bailey's Irish Gaelic cream mixed amongst or together with thus 1/2-&-1/2 for creaminess.  The creme de menthe together with creme de cacao hand this cocktail the mint-chocolate flavor to gibe that of its classic cookie inspiration.

And creme de menthe also gives it its pretty light-green color, too.

Grab your cocktail shaker together with bask the fabulous flavors of Thin Mints inwards cocktail shape Thin Mint Cocktail

Creme de menthe comes inwards both a light-green version together with a clear version.  To larn its minty light-green color, brand the cocktail amongst light-green creme de menthe instead of the clear, of course.

But creme de cacao impacts its color, too.

Creme de cacao comes inwards ii color versions, equally good a nighttime chocolate-brown version together with a clear version.  When mixing upwardly this Thin Mint cocktail for its photograph shoot, I wondered if y'all could purpose either color exactly fine.  In the by I convey e'er used clear creme de cacao ... but figured if I was curious nigh using nighttime creme de cacao, y'all all mightiness be, too.  So I gave it a try.

When it comes to taste?  Yes, y'all tin hand the axe purpose either color of creme de cacao.  They both hand the cocktail the chocolatey flavor it needs.

When it comes to the cocktail's color?  I wouldn't consider the ii interchangeable.  Not if y'all wishing the minty-green color of the cocktails inwards my photos ... which is achieved using clear creme de cacao.

Here's a comparing of Thin Mint cocktails made amongst each color of creme de cacao:

Grab your cocktail shaker together with bask the fabulous flavors of Thin Mints inwards cocktail shape Thin Mint Cocktail

As y'all tin hand the axe see, the i on the left is a pretty minty green.  It's made amongst clear creme de cacao.  The i on the right, made amongst chocolate-brown creme de cacao, is to a greater extent than of a grayish-pea'ish green.  The flavor of the ii is the same, but I notice the i on the left to hold upwardly unappealing inwards its color.

I propose sticking amongst clear creme de cacao to larn its minty light-green hue.

While this cocktail is fabulous for enjoying on whatever day, its light-green color together with touching of Bailey's Irish Gaelic cream larn inwards exactly perfect for St. Patrick's Day sipping, too.

So if you'd similar to bask the fabulous flavors of Thin Mints inwards a fun cocktail form, catch your cocktail shaker, stair out out or together with thus creme de menthe, creme de cacao, together with Bailey's amongst your jigger, together with milkshake them up!  

St. Patrick's Day, "cookie season," or not, it's certain i tasty together with fun agency to bask those favorite flavors of Thin Mints.

Grab your cocktail shaker together with bask the fabulous flavors of Thin Mints inwards cocktail shape Thin Mint Cocktail




Thin Mint Cocktail
Source:  Adapted from The Big Book of Appetizers
(Print recipe)
Ingredients
  • 3/4 oz. Bailey’s Irish Gaelic cream
  • 1 ½ oz. green crème de menthe
  • 3 oz. clear crème de cacao
  • 3 oz. vanilla vodka
  • 6 oz. 1/2-&-1/2
Directions
  1. Chill 2 martini spectacles inwards the freezer for nigh xx to thirty minutes.
  2. Fill a cocktail shaker one-half total amongst ice. Add Bailey's Irish Gaelic cream, crème de menthe, crème de cacao, vanilla vodka, together with ½-&-1/2. Shake for nigh thirty seconds.
  3. Strain shaken mixture into prepared glasses.
  4. Garnish amongst chocolate curls or chocolate shavings, if desired.
Makes 2 cocktails

NOTE:  You tin hand the axe also exactly mix all ingredients together together with chill inwards the fridge earlier serving rather than using a cocktail shaker.

Enjoy!


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