Chocolate Thin Mint Cookies

I was sitting around one Sunday afternoon feeling sorry for myself that I missed out on the Girls Scout cookie season.  I love the Girl Scout Thin Mint cookies but of course they are 
not Gluten Free! So of course what do I do?  Come up with my own gluten free Thin Mint cookies, yea!!!

Chocolate Thin Mint cookies

Gluten Free/Dairy Free

Ingredients:

1 - package Betty Crocker GF yellow cake mix 


1/2 cup Dark Chocolate cocoa powder

1/4 cup powdered sugar

2 - eggs 


1/4 cup Vegetable shortening, non-hydrogenated

1/4 cup + 2 tsp non dairy butter, Earth Balance

2 tsp vanilla 

2 tsp vanilla coconut milk

Instructions:

Step 1:Heat oven to 350 degrees. 

Step 2:Add all the above ingredients in a mixing bowl and mix together until soft dough ball forms.  

Step 3:Spoon dough into balls (a little larger than a quarter) and spoon onto cookie sheet. I like to use parchment paper on my cookie sheets.

Step 3:Bake for 7 to 8 minutes. Remove from oven and let cool on sheet (until warm).  Then remove cookies from pans and cool on cooling rack.

Step 4:While cookies are cooling make frosting. See below.

Thin mint frosting

1 cup powdered sugar
1/2 cup Dark Chocolate Cocoa Powder
2 to 3 tsp Vanilla Coconut Milk, Silk
1/2 tsp Peppermint Extract
1/4 cup Vegetable Shortenting, non-hydrogentated
1/4 cup non dairy butter, Earth Balance
Instructions:Cream all the frosting ingredients together until creamy.  Lightly frost cooled cookies.