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Sunday, February 17, 2013

Thin Mint Cream Pie + Girl Scout Cookie Giveaway!

You know what’s funny? Me re-watching Victoria’s Secret fashion shows being huge at 30 weeks pregnant wearing tapered sweat pants and big ugly socks with frizzy hair and no make-up eating this entire pie.

My husband is one lucky man.

Anyways, I made a pie. And it’s the bomb. I’ve also been looking up new workouts to try after I have this little dude, but I’m thinking that my good intentions will be put on hold because of ….. this pie.

Blasted girl scouts and their irresistible cookies.

I think perhaps that chocolate and mint are one of my favorite combinations ever. Especially when cream is somehow involved. Umm, definitely when cream is involved. I do it because I can. And because I had 2 cups of cream I had to get rid of. And by get rid of I mean eat.

So yes, I made a Thin Mint Cream Pie. Thin mint crust, chocolate pudding filling and pepperminty whipped cream on top. HEAVEN! And super simple to whip out. I made the pudding from what I had on hand, but feel free to use a small box of chocolate jello to eat that much faster. And please make sure to add the whipped cream. My husband is a girl, doesn’t like ‘tasteless empty calories’ and scraped his cream off.

I was seriously this close to smacking him.

Moral of the story: don’t be like him.

*GIVEAWAY TIME*

And, because I love ya and because it’s the season for Girl Scout Cookies, I’m giving away EIGHT boxes {one of each kind} of Girl Scout Cookies courtesy of the Oregon and SW Washington Girl Scouts.

Here’s how to enter–> Simply leave a comment below answering the following question:

What is your favorite kind of girl scout cookie?

That’s it!

Contest open to residents of the continental US only. Contest will be open from now until Friday, February 22nd at 11:59 pm. Winner will be chosen at random and notified via email. Winner will have 48 hours to respond before another winner is chosen. Good luck!

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Thin Mint Cream Pie

Creamy, dreamy, chocolatey, minty goodness!

Yield: 8-10 servings

Prep Time: 3 hours

Cook Time: 5 minutes

Total Time: 3 hours 5 minutes

Ingredients:

for the crust-
24 thin mint cookies + more for garnish
1 tablespoon sugar
3 tablespoons melted butter
for the filling-
1/2 cup granulated sugar
3 tablespoons cornstarch, sifted
4 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder, sifted
2 cups milk
2 oz chopped bittersweet chocolate
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 teaspoon peppermint extract
for the topping-
2 cups heavy cream
4 tablespoons powdered sugar
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 teaspoon peppermint extract

Directions:

Grind thin mint cookies into crumbs. Stir together with sugar and melted butter until crumbs are moistened and press into a pie plate. Refrigerate.

In a small pot, stir sugar, cornstarch and cocoa powder together. Whisk in milk and place over medium heat until mixture comes to a boil and starts to thicken. Once hot and thick remove from heat and stir in chopped chocolate, vanilla and peppermint extract. Pour into pie plate and cover with plastic wrap. Be sure to place the plastic wrap directly on the filling. Refrigerate for 2 hours or until completely chilled and plastic wrap comes off clean.

For the topping, whip cream, powdered sugar, vanilla and peppermint extract together until stiff peaks form. Spread half overtop entire pie and use the remaining to decorate the edges. Top with extra thin mint cookies and serve.

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