Girl Scout Cookie Thin Mint Chocolate Pie is a pie that calls for a crust made with ground chocolate mint cookies. The recipe was intended to use up extra Thin Mints we bought from our favorite Girl Scouts. After all these years we still buy too many Girl Scout cookies, and this recipe comes in handy. It's a quick Jell-O pudding pie with an unbaked cookie crust, two layers of chocolate filling and a whipped cream cookie topping.
Thin Mint Cookie Substitutes
Since Thin Mints aren't available all year, an alternative is to use other chocolate mint flavored cookies. There are plenty of substitutes. I made my last pie with a brand called Oven Baked from The Dollar Store which look like Thin Mints, but are actually vanilla on the inside. They taste good, but you get kind of a mottled looking crust.
Crumbs Needed For Crust
Whatever brand you use, you'll need about 1 ⅓ cups crumbs which is about 6 oz (170 grams) of cookies. When I first made this pie Thin Mints came in packs of 32. 10 cookies are reserved for crumbling and putting in the cream, while the other 22 are ground into crumbs. You mix the crumbs with butter, press into the pie shell and chill. No baking required!
Chocolate Pudding Filling
The filling calls for two packs of pudding mix, only 2 cups of milk, a dash of peppermint extract and a whole lot of Cool Whip. Using the convenience products makes it quick and easy to prepare, but if you have more time and experience you have options. But this is the pudding mix version.
- Mix 2 packs of pudding with 2 cups of milk to make a really thick fudge pudding mixture. Mix a portion of that with the peppermint extract and spread on the bottom to make the dark layer.
- Mix remaining thick pudding mixture with some whipped topping to lighten, then layer it on for the lighter toned layer.
- Chop reserved cookies, mix with about 2 ½ cups of whipped topping (no need for precision here) and spread over chocolate layers.
- Chill thoroughly, then spread or pipe whipped topping over the whole thing.
Scratch Thin Mint Chocolate Pie
You could also do a scratch (non-pudding mix) version of the filling by following the steps below and using a good homemade chocolate pudding recipe, mixing with whipped topping or whipped cream, adding the chopped cookie layer and piping whipped cream over the top. Something like the Two-Tone Chocolate Mousse Pie but with a mint cookie crust.
Peppermint Extract
The mint extract makes the pie quite mint-y, so if you want a more subtle mint flavor you could leave it out completely and just have the mint flavor come from the crust. Also, if you do go for that extra mint flavor be sure to use peppermint extract rather than one that just says "mint". The extracts labeled mint are sometimes spearmint.
Recipe
Girl Scout Cookie Thin Mint Chocolate Pie
Ingredients
- 1 box Thin Mint cookies 32 cookies
- 3 tablespoons melted butter
- 2 cups cold milk
- 2 packages instant pudding mix, 4 serving sizes each
- ¼ teaspoon peppermint extract
- 1 tub whipped topping, divided use 12 oz size
Instructions
- Remove 10 cookies and set aside.
- Crush or process remaining 22 cookies to make 1 ⅓ cups crumbs. Mix the crumbs with the butter. Press firmly onto bottom and up side of 9-inch pie plate.
- Pour milk into large bowl. Add both boxes of pudding mix and beat with wire whisk 2 minutes or until well blended. (Mixture will be thick.)
- Spoon out 1 ¼ cup of pudding into another bowl and stir in peppermint extract. Pour peppermint pudding mixture over crust. To remaining pudding mix, add in 1 cup of whipped topping. Spread the pudding/whipped topping layer of the mint layer.
- Chop remaining cookies and combine them with about 2 ½ cups (doesn’t have to be precise) whipped topping. Spread this mixture over the top. The pie might look kind of messy at this point, so clean up the edges.
- Chill for 4 hours or until set
- To garnish, place remaining whipped topping in a plastic zipper bag. Snip off a corner of the bag (about ½ inch up from corner) and squeeze whipped topping around sides decoratively.
- To make thin zig-zags, pour COLD chocolate syrup into a small zipper bag. Snip a very, very tiny cut off the bottom corner and drizzle away!
Notes
Virginia says
I'm selling girl scout cookies... Tell Fuzz GSCTX Seniors say "GOOD LUCK!"
I invented my own cookie pie recipe, then went online to see some other inspirations. I love baking, and usually make a new treat for my family every week so we always have something sitting around for after dinner snacks or something small to nab on our way out the door. It's all Thanks-A-Lots and Peanut Butter Patties!
Tanis says
OMG!!! That I have to make...now I just need to find some girlscouts!!!!
justJENN says
UGH shortbread. Ohhh that pie looks good!!
Jane says
You mean there are other Girl Scout cookies besides Thin Mints, Caramel Delights and Peanut Butter Patties?? My niece is a Daisy and compelled me to buy ten boxes of cookies...so I will definitely print this recipe for when they come in (March)!
Barbara says
I haven't had any Thin Mints in a while. Couldn't one substitue Keebler Grasshopper cookies for the Thin Mints? Guess I need to do a side by side taste test. I haven't seen any girl scouts selling cookies in a couple of years. Used to be I tripped over them every time I entered a store or went to the voting booth.
Kerstin says
Mmm, I'd buy Thin Mints just to make this pie! I actually just found GS cookies leftover from last year - I tried to make them last and then I forgot they were there - oops. Hope Fuzz has fun with he cookie sales!
Katrina says
We bought like 8 boxes from our neighbor girl over 2 months ago and she knocked on our door the other day and surprised us with the cookies we'd forgotten all about. We still have at least a box and a half of thin mints. I haven't eaten ANY of any kind, because I know I'll have a hard time stopping at just a few! 😉 The pie looks and sounds de-lish, but like Mimi, my husband probably prefers just eating the cookies!
I still want to make the chocolate marshmallow pie first. And I'm going to make an almost flourless chocolate cake today. And oh, there's so much to do that doesn't involve the kitchen.....sigh! 😉
Mimi says
The pie looks yummy, but I don't think my husband would sacrifice his thin mints for it.
Mimi
Louise says
No order taking? Actual cookies for sale? We don't have any Girl Scouts coming to the door. We just have to find them selling outside the local Walmart.
Oh, and according to my calendar, today is Chocolate Cake Day.
Terri says
Really? No one wanted the shortbreads? Those are my favorite (and I can eat a whole sleeve at a time)!
Cecily T says
Those lemon cookies were my favorites!
Anna says
Kate, that's awesome! Every year I say I'm going to print out recipes and give them to people with the cookies, but I never do.
Kate M says
This is a hit with our Brownies. I make it once or twice a year for their little celebrations, and they love knowing it was made with the cookies they sold.