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Baskin Robbins Mint Chocolate Chip Copycat Recipe

It’s Ice Cream Week on Something Swanky and Crazy for Crust!*

Click the links above to see all of our fun ice cream recipes from this week.

***Originally posted in July 2014

 

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I’ve mentioned before that my husband isn’t a big fan of mix-in type ice cream places (like Coldstone). He’ll eat there if I make him go (I mean, it is ice cream, after all). But then, as we’re driving past the Baskin Robbins on our way home, he’ll heave a not-so-subtle sigh and gaze longingly at the rear-view mirror.

I determined that our difference in opinion over ice cream shops is really the difference between liking hard or soft ice cream. He prefers hard scooped, I’d rather have something more along the lines of ice cream soup. I dunno… he’s probably in the majority there. But I can’t help it– I love soft, mushy ice cream full of big candy chunks and hot fudge.

Baskin Robbins Mint Chocolate Chip Copycat Recipe | somethingswanky.com

However, he has totally turned me on to Baskin Robbins’ Chocolate Chip and Mint Chocolate Chip ice creams.

Because….. ohemgee.

I am so in love with the way their “chocolate chips” aren’t really chocolate chips at all. Instead, it’s full of a thin pieces of brittle chocolate that ribbon throughout the ice cream. And it takes chocolate chip ice cream to an amazing new level.

Just like the Stracciatella I mentioned last week, Baskin Robbins-style chocolate chip ice cream is achieved in the same way– by pouring chocolate (or in this case, Homemade Magic Shell) into the ice cream during the last 5 minutes of churning.

Baskin Robbins Mint Chocolate Chip Copycat Recipe | somethingswanky.com

This Mint Chocolate Chip Ice Cream is SO easy and so yummy. Mint is one of my husband’s favorite ice cream flavors, but you could easily make this regular old chocolate chip ice cream by simply omitting the peppermint extract!

I use this Cuisinart ICE-21 Ice Cream Maker to make churned ice cream, and far I’ve loved it. It’s pretty inexpensive (only $49!), easy to use, and makes delicious ice cream in about 20-30 minutes. I would highly recommend it if you’re looking for a simple, day-to-day use ice cream machine.

Enjoy!

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.