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A green-frosted donut with chocolate drizzle sits on a white plate, viewed from above—a festive choice for St Patrick’s Day Desserts. In the background, there’s a bowl of chocolate chips and part of another plate.

Girl Scout Cookie Inspired Thin Mint Donuts Recipe

Love Thin Mints? Then you need to try these thin mint donuts! A simple baked recipe with a refreshing mint glaze that tastes bakery fresh.

Course desserts, dog treats
Cuisine American
Keyword Girl Scout Cookie Inspired Thin Mint Donuts Recipe, mint donut, mint donuts
Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 8 minutes
Additional Time 15 minutes
Total Time 28 minutes
Servings 6
Author momma lew

Ingredients

Chocolate Donut Recipe

  • ¾ cup buttermilk
  • 1 cup all purpose flour
  • ¼ cup sugar
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • ½ tsp baking soda
  • 1 TBSP. cocoa powder
  • ½ tsp salt
  • 2 Tbsp melted coconut oil
  • 1 tsp. vanilla extract

Mint Icing

  • 1 ½ cups white chocolate chips
  • 1 teaspoon melted coconut oil
  • 1/2 tsp mint extract
  • a few drops green food coloring

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease a donut pan. 
  2. In a large mixing bowl, add flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, cocoa powder and salt. Stir until combined.
  3. Add in the coconut oil and the buttermilk and stir until fully mixed.
  4. Use a piping bag  or a Ziploc bag with the corner cut, pipe the batter into the prepared pan, filling about 2/3 full.
  5. Bake for about 8 minutes, or until donuts are fully cooked when a toothpick comes out clean.
  6. Allow the donuts to cool for 5 minutes in the pan then remove to allow them to cool the rest of the way. 

  7. Melt white chocolate chips with the coconut oil in a medium size microwave safe bowl. Microwave for 1 minute and then continue in 30 second intervals until chocolate is smooth. 

  8. Add the mint extract and a few drops of green food coloring until you reach your desired shade.
  9. Dip the donuts into the melted chocolate covering them about halfway up the sides. 
  10. Allow the excess chocolate to drip off and set them on a wire rack to fully cure.  Repeat with remaining donuts.

  11. Melt dark chocolate with the oil in a microwave safe bowl. . Microwave for 1 minute and then continue in 30 second intervals until chocolate is smooth.

  12. Using a fork , drizzle the melted dark chocolate over the donuts allow the chocolate to dry and harden.