Thin Mint Cupcakes

I am part of a local MOPS group and we rotate each month who brings dinner/dessert. So this month was my turn, and I really dislike cooking. So I decided to bake cupcakes! I went to a baby shower last Saturday for a friend and one of the shower hosts made Thin Mint Cupcakes! YUM! So I decided to make them for the MOPS meeting. I made sure to make enough for Alan and I too!

I wanted an easy recipe for this batch - I usually make cupcake and icing from scratch...but wasn't in the mood! So I found the recipe I used on allParenting.com - super easy! I didn't have any girl scout cookies (eek, I haven't had any this year!) so I got some Keebler Grasshoppers, which taste pretty close to the Thin Mints.

Love my Kitchen Aid!

For the icing you can dye it green and put flavor (mint) in it. I've never done that so it was pretty neat. We just used 3 containers of White Whipped Icing for 48 cupcakes and added the green food coloring and Peppermint.

So pretty!!

Then topped with half a cookie!

They turned out pretty good! For some reason a couple of my cupcake pans didn't like the cookie in the bottom of the cupcake. The cookie adhered to the wrapper! So I'm guessing they cooked too long in those pans, but one pan did it perfectly and all were baked the same amount of time. Oh well. Now I know for next time!

Gained 10 lbs just baking these!

Earlier this week I came across this picture:

From The Plucky Housewives

It took some Google searching to find the original location of the picture and the recipe! So hoping this is the original location. However this is the page and recipe I used to make these tonight. Adeline decided she wanted to help.

Here are most of the ingredients I used, not a terribly expensive dessert but it did cost me around $6.50 for the brownie mix, Reese cups, and cookie dough. And of course a special trip to the grocery store to get the goods!

First I mixed up the brownie mix.

Then I put the cookie dough in the bottom of the muffin tins. There was some cookie dough leftover, so I put it in a separate cupcake tin and mixed with left over brownie mix.

Next I opened up all the Reese's Cups and placed them on top of the cookie dough then added brownie mix  to 3/4 full.

And now we bake and wait for them to finish!

I baked about 16 min., and I really think another minute or two would have been better.

Here is the finished product!

It was awesome! (Well the one I could eat)