Chocolate Mint Cookies kinda sorta like a "Thin Mint"

Chocolate cookies thin mint style

These turned out better than I could have even imagined.  crisp and chocolaty and minty!

They do take a couple of specialty ingredients, but everything is available easily at Netition.com

they are very high in fiber and as such can cause a bit of intestinal gas if you are sensitive.  I can eat a lot before it kicks in for me, but be aware.  These are really for special occasions and not an everyday thing--definitely not Atkins induction fare! But when Girl Scout cookie season rolls around, these could definitely help keep a girl on the sugar free straight and narrow!!!!

3/4 cup almond flour ( blanched)
1/4 cup  wheat flour 
1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder ( dutched style) 
3/4 cup polydextrose fiber
1/4 cup  xylitol
1/4 tsp salt
1/4 tsp baking powder

30 drops liquid splenda
half stick butter
1 egg
1/4 tsp mint extract
2 tsp red food coloring*

mix all dry together in large bowl
melt butter and liquid splenda, food coloring* and egg

*the food coloring is optional--however, without it, the cookies can be an unattractive grayish color.  For some reason--maybe the almond flour--cocoa powder just doesn't make a rich, chocolaty color in low carb baked goods.  The red food color fixes that.

Add wet to dry and blend till well mixed allow to sit for a few minutes or wrap in plastic wrap and chill for up to several days.   pinch off a scant teaspoon of dough and roll into a ball and place fairly far apart on a parchment paper lined baking sheet--cookies will spread!

 bake at 300 degrees F for 15 min--then flatten cookies ( only takes a light touch--you don't have to mash them or anything-- just take the poof out) with a spatula and bake for another 2 min or so. (this it what works for me.  you may have to experiment to find the perfect timing)

I slide the whole sheet of parchment with the cookies on it  onto a cooling rack.  The cookies firm as they cool but are very soft when still hot.

after the cookies were cool I " frosted" them with  melted sugar free mint chocolate from chocoperfection also available at netrition.com   or use your favorite sugar free chocolate with mint extract added--I used about 2 oz for half the recipe.