Rich fudgy brownies that taste like your favorite Thin Mint Girl Scout Cookies!

Thin Mint Brownies Recipe

Rich fudgy brownies that taste like your favorite Thin Mint Girl Scout Cookies!

This post is sponsored by Pillsbury.

Rich fudgy brownies that taste like your favorite Thin Mint Girl Scout Cookies!

Top 5 things I learned in Girl Scouts:

  1. Be careful when hot gluing pennies to hair clips. ????
  2. Send the cookie order form to work with your Dad immediately upon receiving the form.
  3. Show up to meetings twinning with your best friend. With a matching side braid if possible.
  4. Surprisingly, moving up to ‘Brownies’ doesn’t mean you actually get brownies. Who knew?
  5. Always, always, ALWAYS stash the Thin Mints in the freezer as soon as the shipment gets in!

Rich fudgy brownies that taste like your favorite Thin Mint Girl Scout Cookies!

Is there anything in this world better than frozen Thin Mints?!

How about a frozen Thin Mint Brownie?

You guys… THIN MINT BROWNIES! And I don’t mean Thin-Mint-Brownies-that-you-have-to-wait-all-the-way-until-Girl-Scout-Cookie-season-to-make.

I mean whip-em-up-brownies made RIGHT NOW with a whisk and a bowl in your very own kitchen with just 4 simple ingredients. Interested?

Rich fudgy brownies that taste like your favorite Thin Mint Girl Scout Cookies!

Of course you are. Aren’t we all?!

The NEW Pillsbury™ Girl Scout Cookie™- Inspired Baking Mixes provide a way to recreate the crave-worthy flavors of Girl Scout Cookies® at home in the form of brownies, blondies and cupcakes with the ease of a convenient Pillsbury™ Girl Scout Cookie™ Flavored Baking Mix.

I mean, really. It’s about time somebody came up with this! amiright??

Rich fudgy brownies that taste like your favorite Thin Mint Girl Scout Cookies!

Rich fudgy brownies that taste like your favorite Thin Mint Girl Scout Cookies!

 

I think you’ll love these brownies no matter when you eat them. But my personal opinion is that you should really wait until they’ve cooled completely and given the flavors time to marry a bit before you dig in.

And if you really want them at their very best… just remember Girl Scout Lesson #5. ????

Enjoy! And big thanks to Pillsbury for sponsoring this post.

Chewy, fudgy brownie cookie bars with a marshmallow swirl, and graham cracker crust layer, and semi-sweet chocolate chips.

Nutella Brownie S’mores Cookie Bars Recipe

Chewy, fudgy brownie cookie bars with a marshmallow and Nutella swirl, graham cracker crust layer, and milk chocolate chips.

Chewy, fudgy brownie cookie bars with a marshmallow swirl, and graham cracker crust layer, and semi-sweet chocolate chips.

If you’ve been hanging around Something Swanky for any amount of time at all really, you know my love of these brownie cookies. And if you’ve been stopping by for a little longer than that, then you also know that I’m obsessed with s’mores.

Bringing the two together was simply the natural progression of things.

Chewy, fudgy brownie cookie bars with a marshmallow swirl, and graham cracker crust layer, and semi-sweet chocolate chips.

Ok, so… Brownie Cookie Bars. You may be wondering why I took brownies and turned them into cookies and then took those cookies and turned them back into bars. Yeah?

And the answer is… I wanted something a little firmer than brownies, like a cookie, but still basically brownies. Ergo: my favorite brownie cookie recipe baked into bars.

So, yeah. They’re basically still brownies. A little firmer on the tops and bottoms than a brownie, but still just as rich and fudgy in the centers. I know it’s a little backwards, but just trust me on this. It works.

Chewy, fudgy brownie cookie bars with a marshmallow swirl, and graham cracker crust layer, and semi-sweet chocolate chips.

Speaking of centers… would you get a load of that?! ????

Sandwiched in between these rich and fudgy brownie cookie bars is a thick and gooey layer of marshmallow cream, Nutella, and a ridiculously perfect, buttery graham cracker crust.

YES. All that. ????

Chewy, fudgy brownie cookie bars with a marshmallow swirl, and graham cracker crust layer, and semi-sweet chocolate chips.
Chewy, fudgy brownie cookie bars with a marshmallow swirl, and graham cracker crust layer, and semi-sweet chocolate chips.

These are so, so, SO easy to make. You’ll only need one bowl– and you can make the graham cracker crust layer in a ziplock bag like I did, so there aren’t even any extra dishes needed there!

Starting with the brownie cookie dough. It’s simply a variation on a box mix recipe. You will need an actual box mix, but don’t follow the recipe on there for brownie batter. I’m giving you a different set of ingredients and measurements that will create a different texture than what you’d get using the recipe on the box. More cookie-like, remember?

Next up, a dreamy graham cracker crust. I ALWAYS make graham crusts in a bag. It’s so much easier, less mess, less fuss, so it really just makes sense. Place the graham crackers in a gallon-sized zip bag and crush them up using a rolling pin until they are fine crumbs. Toss in the butter and sugar, and then nuke the whole bag for about 30-60 seconds, until the butter melts. After that, all you have to do is mush the mixture in the bag until the crust comes together! Dump it out over the brownie layer and press it down, easy peasy.

The marshmallow cream and Nutella layer is probably the hardest part, because they’re both so sticky. But if you have a release ice cream or cookie scoop, that pretty much solves all your problems. I just scoop on what I need and spread it just a little with an offset spatula.

Add some more brownie cookie to the top and your milk chocolate chips, and…

Bake.

Drool.

And then top with ice cream.

Chewy, fudgy brownie cookie bars with a marshmallow swirl, and graham cracker crust layer, and semi-sweet chocolate chips.

Obviously.

Deep, dark chocolate brownie cookies loaded with chocolate chunks and milk chocolate toffee bits. Crackly tops, fudgy centers, and chewy edges.

Toffee Chunk Brownie Cookies Recipe

Deep, dark chocolate brownie cookies loaded with chocolate chunks and milk chocolate toffee bits. Crackly tops, fudgy centers, and chewy edges.

Deep, dark chocolate brownie cookies loaded with chocolate chunks and milk chocolate toffee bits. Crackly tops, fudgy centers, and chewy edges.

I first published this recipe almost exactly 6 years ago. And while it was a delicious idea at the time, I’ve learned a lot about baking cookies in the past 6 years and felt like it was time for this recipe to evolve a bit.

I wanted fudgier centers, chewier edges, and even more chocolate chunks and toffee bits than the first version had. I also wanted crackly tops, just like brownies have.

So of course I turned to my FAVORITE brownie mix cookie base recipe.

Deep, dark chocolate brownie cookies loaded with chocolate chunks and milk chocolate toffee bits. Crackly tops, fudgy centers, and chewy edges.

Deep, dark chocolate brownie cookies loaded with chocolate chunks and milk chocolate toffee bits. Crackly tops, fudgy centers, and chewy edges.

Just look at that gooey cookie dough! It’s dreamy. Like fudge. Or brownie batter, since that’s basically what it is. Honestly. I could an entire bowl of just the dough.

This recipe makes THEE best chocolate cookies. And the recipe is really so simple. All you need is a brownie mix and a few simple ingredients that I’m sure you already have on hand (besides the chocolate chunks and toffee, be sure to pick those up if you don’t stock up like I do ????).

You won’t even need a mixer for these. One bowl, one spoon, badda bing, badda boom.

Deep, dark chocolate brownie cookies loaded with chocolate chunks and milk chocolate toffee bits. Crackly tops, fudgy centers, and chewy edges.

Pull up a big glass of cold milk and get ready to enjoy yourself. These cookies are 100% chewy, fudgy, and everything that’s right in the world.