I had to smile when you said you were using peppermint oil to flavor the chocolate. It brought back lovely memories of childhood. I was born & raised in Kalamazoo, Michigan, & still live there. When I was growing up, and when my family was able we went to the local drive-in theater in the summer, they had a playground for young'ns to swing, slide, & climb until it was dark enough for the movie. While playing in the fresh air, there was always the scent peppermint in the air, because this drive-in was located near a factory that distilled & extracted peppermint oil.
My favorite sweet made with Ritz crackers are putting peanut butter between two crackers and then dipping them into melted white almond bark!! Soo good! My mom made them every year for my bday parties. Ah, nostalgia! I can’t get enough of it!!❤❤❤
Anyone who doesn't think Emmy would be the loveliest friend to have in life can leave the planet now! I'm an old grump and I still find her absolutely delightful!
I've made these without the peppermint oil for Christmas gifts. They are delicious! They also are good sandwiched with peanut butter or Nutella before dipping in chocolate.
I learned to make these before you were born, Emmy! Our Girl Scout troop visited a local bakery. Mrs. D told us we could make fake Mints using Ritz crackers, and they'd taste just like ours! We didn't believe it, but it's true! Thin mints are best FROZEN with a glass of milk.
I've made these before. I love LorAnn Oils and have used the orange oil in place of the peppermint to make these cookies. They are great for homemade buttercreams too; so many flavors to choose from.
I've made homemade versions of tagalongs with ritz once and I honestly think they're better than the real thing lol. any time I have real tagalongs I think "I should just make these..." but I never do. it was a one-off thing I decided to try for 4th of July one year and I REALLY need to do it again, highly recommended!
You could definitely make variations using orange or lemon oil, or white or milk chocolate, to have a selection. Make sandwich cookies by filling them with Nutella or marshmello fluff before coating them. Even peanut butter would be good. I can see myself spending all day making different little cookies like this.
So fun. Also please more icebox dessert recipes for summer! I made an icebox lemonade pie last night and it was a hit. 1 tub whipped topping, 6 oz thawed lemonade concentrate, and one can sweetened condensed milk. Fold together just until combined and spoon into a prepared graham pie crust. Freeze min 4 hours and thaw 15 min before serving
I'm going to try this with Oreo Thins in the original flavor and also the Oreo Thins in the mint flavor so those should *really* taste like GS Thin Mints!
A little corn syrup in the chocolate would give it a glossy finish. I would do that with 90% cacao dark chocolate. Perhaps a little clarified butter as well. That being said Emmy knocks it out of the park yet again.
I’ve done these since I was a kid and it’s shocking how close they are! I actually prefer the saltiness but if you’re not into salty sweet you can use the lower sodium crackers.
Hi Emmy! My partner and I recently tried and fell in love with one ingredient banana faux ice cream-definitely recommend it and our kiddo loves it too. The only tricks to figure out are how you prepare the banana, how ripe it is, and how much you blend it (until it has the texture of custard ice cream)
My cousin who's a surgeon, uses peppermint oil inside his mask during surgery in case it's reaalllyyy gross to keep him from getting ill. Very, very potent.
The first time I saw this video it gave me an idea for a Christmas cookie I’m going to make soon. I have mini Christmas cookie cutters and I’m going to use them with a chocolate sugar cookie recipe and then dip them in the mint chocolate and drizzle with white chocolate and Christmas sprinkles.
I saw the Ritz toffee and marshmallow desert yesterday and was going to comment on it and then saw this today. I have made in the past Ritz "Reese's Cups" make pb sandwich with the Ritz and dip them into chocolate 😋oh and I had never used the Ritz for the toffee but used saltines , love your channel
I love mint and chocolate together. York Peppermint Patties are one of my favorites. Off subject but did you know the light bulb by you stand mixer is out? 💡
I could be mistaken, but I believe she’s loosened the bulb just slightly so it intentionally stays off. Doing so would keep all “lit” bulbs above the backsplash, and provide a more even dispersement of the bulbs. In my opinion, having one random bulb lit up in that location would throw off the balance of the accent lighting, and stand out in a negative way. But who knows! 🤷🏻♀️
Please make a Burmese dessert 🙏 There are many easy recipes that would be great for your channel. The category I’m thinking is halwa for example San Win Makin/ Shwe Gyi Mont, tapioca halwa, Shwe htamin, or even kyauk kyaw (although that one isnt my favorite).
Another excellent cookie using Ritz crackers is to spread creamy peanut butter between two Ritz crackers then submerge the peanut butter sandwich cookies into chocolate coating liberally. When you bite into them you get a Butterfinger type texture with a chocolate coated creamy peanut butter cookie.
I'm going to try this for sure-Thin Mints are my favorite!!! Peppermint oil has so many other uses, too- it can help soothe an upset tummy and it makes a great insect deterrent. Ants and spiders hate the stuff and extract won't work the same way.
I prefer to have this as a treat. I only buy from Girl Scouts. The girls ( mine included) had little access to fundraising for trips. However with all the fun variations suggested it will be a fun addition to the dipped-in-chocolate things our family does.
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Emmy you should make those cookies using the chocolate oreos cookies. Just scrape of the creamy center. Then I think you would have a Thin Mint cookie that would be closer to the Girl Scout Cookies. I hope you try this and make a video of it. Much love to you and your family. ❤❤❤
Ok I am definitely trying this. I have everything I need. Even the peppermint oil. And Emmy, Walmart has their own version of thin mints. I believe Trader Joes has them as well. Please consider having a taste test video during the next Girl Scouts Cookie season. 👍😊
Try some peanut butter between the crackers and dip in the chocolate, they are some of our favorites!! Also for being a Girl Scout leader over 36 years, thank you for all those that purchases cookies it helped us pay for troop retention for next year!! 😅
I'm not a huge fan of mint but i will try these. My son loves ritz crackers and chocolate mint. I actually just finished making the cream cheese you made in a past video. I made plain and a garlic and herb flavour. Quite tasty 🙂 Thank you for all your videos!
If you want your chocolate to set more like the cookies, add a couple of teaspoons of coconut oil to your chocolate. ❤. You'll get a nice shiny finish. 😊
Andes sells bags of broken bits that they collect in the manufacture of their mints. I find them every year in the supermarket. One of the things that I do with them is to substitute for chocolate chips when making Toll-house cookies.
When Emmy says that peppermint oil is Very strong, she is Not kidding! I've bought some and tried making my own mint tea by shaking it into tea bags. Two drops of it is Over powering, while just one quick shake into a tea bag is just about right.
I would try using Graham crackers, also for something thicker, try sandwiching 2 together with some peppermint fondant then covering with peppermint chocolate. xx
You could use mint chocolate chips. We have a company here in Wisconsin that makes so many flavors of chips from normal to things like carrot flavored for dog desserts!
For the viewers in the Philippines... since Ritz crackers are hard to find and expensive there in the Philippines coz it's imported item, just use the local Fita crackers, they're basically the same as Ritz 😆 or, if you want it a little sweeter, use Graham crackers instead
My goodness, I don't know how many would have actually made it to the cookie sheet after the dip and flip, lol. Every time you lifted the fork & cookie out of the chocolate, I imagined it going straight into your mouth... which is most likely what would happen if I tried to make these lol. Some would make, maybe...
Hey Emmy. Nice and amazing video. Just using chocolate 🍫 and Ritz cracker 🍘 is interesting. Thank you for sharing this video with us. God Bless and take care. Mari'a. 👍👍👍👍🤗🤗🤗🤗❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🍘🍫
I have a good idea!! Mix natural unsweetened peanut butter that's had the fat drained off with honey, coat thickly one side of a ritz cracker with it, dip pb cracker in the melted chocolate sans mint, and you've got a sort of a reeses pb cup!!
“Rinse and repeat” is a phrase I remember from TV commercials for shampoo - in the 60’s perhaps - Breck Shampoo, maybe…? A search tells us that it was perhaps a marketing strategy to sell more shampoo… Another article gives a less commercial answer - the first wash collects the oils from the hair, but it doesn’t lather, which we associate with CLEAN. The second wash results in LOTS of lather, then rinses away, giving you that “squeaky clean.” At least that’s the theory, right? So fun to find out where these phrases come from!
Pink fluffy unicorns. We don't have girl scout cookies in the UK. My mother is American and the nearest to a thin mint would be a viscount mint biscuit or a mint penguin biscuit bar. 😉
Variation of this would be to take a Ritz, smear a little bit of peanut-butter or Gnutella and use plain chocolate, either milk- or dark. Ritz crackers *are* salty as well as sweet, so if there's a salt-free version (haven't checked), that'd be better.
Emmy, if you can access Australian foods, look for Arnott’s Choc Mint Slice Biscuits! You’ll love them and they’re only 20mg sodium per biscuit, which is just as well because they’re very more-ish!
