{"id":20268,"date":"2016-07-01T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-01T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/?p=20268"},"modified":"2023-08-12T20:34:21","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T06:34:21","slug":"review-pillsbury-girl-scouts-thin-mints-brownie-mix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/2016\/07\/01\/review-pillsbury-girl-scouts-thin-mints-brownie-mix\/","title":{"rendered":"REVIEW: Pillsbury Girl Scouts Thin Mints Brownie Mix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/theimpulsivebuy\/27395567633\" title=\"View 'Pillsbury Girl Scouts Thin Mints Brownie Mix' on Flickr.com\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"640\" style=\"display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7384\/27395567633_6c22ebe5e6_z.jpg?resize=507%2C640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Pillsbury Girl Scouts Thin Mints Brownie Mix\" width=\"507\" title=\"Pillsbury Girl Scouts Thin Mints Brownie Mix\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Before we begin, let me say this: <i>don\u2019t Google \u201cPillsbury Doughgirl.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<p>I did so with the intention of cracking some joke about how the Pillsbury Doughboy shouldn\u2019t be allowed on this box of Girl Scouts Thin Mints Brownie Mix, but instead I learned three things:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Yes, there was a female \u201cPoppie Fresh\u201d mascot introduced in the \u201870s, but fans still weirdly debate whether she\u2019s the Doughboy\u2019s wife or sister.<\/li>\n<li>It only takes creepy internet photographers two Google image search results to make these mascots\u2019 relationship disturbingly erotic.<\/li>\n<li>The Urban Dictionary definition of \u201cPillsbury Dough Girl\u201d would make even George Carlin blush.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So excuse me as I unplug my computer and mourn the loss of my innocence by cramming an 8\u201dx8\u201d rectangle of baked chocolate mint goodness into my mouth.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/theimpulsivebuy\/27395567403\" title=\"View 'Pillsbury Girl Scouts Thin Mints Brownie Mix 2' on Flickr.com\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"427\" style=\"display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7242\/27395567403_412096a49b_z.jpg?resize=640%2C427&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Pillsbury Girl Scouts Thin Mints Brownie Mix 2\" width=\"640\" title=\"Pillsbury Girl Scouts Thin Mints Brownie Mix 2\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The brownie mix itself is pale brown and floury: the kind of messy stuff you\u2019ll inevitably end up wearing like a cocoa powder apron. It tastes like a pulverized Junior Mint mixed with beach sand.<\/p>\n<p>The recipe is so easy a blob of anthropomorphized crescent roll dough could make it. It only requires water, oil, and an egg, so just raid your nearest public swimming pool, Jiffy Lube, and McDonald\u2019s All-Day Breakfast to procure the necessary ingredients.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/theimpulsivebuy\/27395567553\" title=\"View 'Pillsbury Girl Scouts Thin Mints Brownie Mix 3' on Flickr.com\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"427\" style=\"display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7672\/27395567553_35ea524d25_z.jpg?resize=640%2C427&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Pillsbury Girl Scouts Thin Mints Brownie Mix 3\" width=\"640\" title=\"Pillsbury Girl Scouts Thin Mints Brownie Mix 3\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After the specified 50 strokes of a spoon, what\u2019s left is a decadent and thick chocolate batter studded with little square chocolate chunks. I popped a solid chocolate square in my mouth, and it popped back with a rich, slightly bitter chocolate mint bite \u2014- a lot like an Andes Mint.<\/p>\n<p>With a perfect golden ratio of chocolate to mint, the batter tasted so good raw I didn\u2019t want to bake it. But salmonella might\u2019ve been what killed the Pillsbury Doughgirl, so I let it sit in the oven for 30 minutes while wondered &#8212; in a chocolate daze &#8212; whether that minty fresh brown batter is what courses through the Doughboy\u2019s veins to keep him Poppin\u2019 Fresh.<\/p>\n<p>When I finally opened my oven, a gust of mint chocolate scented air smacked me like a water balloon filled with Shamrock Shakes. After my bubbling cocoa lava brownies cooled, I dug in with the voracity of a cartoon caveman.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/theimpulsivebuy\/27395567463\" title=\"View 'Pillsbury Girl Scouts Thin Mints Brownie Mix 4' on Flickr.com\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"405\" style=\"display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7725\/27395567463_5d8fbbaeca_z.jpg?resize=640%2C405&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Pillsbury Girl Scouts Thin Mints Brownie Mix 4\" width=\"640\" title=\"Pillsbury Girl Scouts Thin Mints Brownie Mix 4\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yep, these taste exactly like Thin Mints. Like any sane human, I prefer my brownies gooey in the middle and crispy on the crust, and this helped recreate the \u201ccrisp cookie enrobed in creamy chocolate\u201d textural contrast of the famous Girl Scout Cookie.<\/p>\n<p>These Thin Mint Brownies lack a lot of the traditional vanilla-tinged, eggy fudge flavor of other brownies, mostly because the pleasant and pervasive buzz of peppermint usurps its place. The milk chocolate and sweetened cocoa brownie base, meanwhile, is still appropriately moist, and the formerly solid chocolate morsels provide welcome land mine bursts of magmatic, minty chocolate liqueur. <\/p>\n<p>I can\u2019t recommend these brownies to everyone, because loving mint is an obvious prerequisite. Girl Scout Cookie consumers tend to be loyal to a specific cookie, and because Thin Mints are tied for 3rd in my book &#8212; right behind Do-Si-Dos and my personal, peanut buttery Tagalong messiahs &#8212; I thought these brownies were just slightly above average. <\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, those who can casually empty a roll of Thin Mints like it\u2019s a peeled banana will give satisfied merit badges to these complexly chocolatized delights.<\/p>\n<p>Wait, how half-baked and dumb do I have to be to think \u201cchocolatized\u201d is a real word? Did the Doughboy put another \u201cspecial green\u201d ingredient in these brownies? <\/p>\n<p><small>(Nutrition Facts &#8211; 1\/12 package, as prepared \u2013 190 calories, 70 calories from fat, 8.5 grams of fat, 2 grams of saturated fat, 0 grams of trans fat, 20 milligrams of cholesterol, 90 milligrams of sodium, 28 grams of carbohydrates, 1 gram of dietary fiber, 18 grams of sugar, and 2 grams of protein..)<\/small><\/p>\n<p><b>Purchased Price:<\/b> $2.99<br \/>\n<b>Size:<\/b> 14.1 oz box<br \/>\n<b>Purchased at:<\/b> Walmart<br \/>\n<b>Rating:<\/b> 7 out of 10<br \/>\n<b>Pros:<\/b> Authentic Thin Mint texture. Ooey-gooey-kablooey chocolate morsel explosions. Declaring \u201cTagalongology\u201d as my official religion. Chocolatize me, Cap\u2019n!<br \/>\n<b>Cons:<\/b> Fudge droughts. A criminal lack of Do-Si-Do brownies. Feeling half-baked after eating half-baked brownies. The number of red squiggles spellcheck gave this review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before we begin, let me say this: don\u2019t Google \u201cPillsbury Doughgirl.\u201d I did so with the intention of cracking some joke about how the Pillsbury Doughboy shouldn\u2019t be allowed on this box of Girl Scouts Thin Mints Brownie Mix, but instead I learned three things: Yes, there was a female \u201cPoppie Fresh\u201d mascot introduced in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1440],"tags":[2243,1811,1554],"class_list":["post-20268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-baking-mix","tag-girl-scouts","tag-pillsbury"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":20196,"url":"https:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/2016\/06\/20\/spotted-on-shelves-pillsbury-girl-scouts-thin-mints-and-caramel-coconut-baking-mixes\/","url_meta":{"origin":20268,"position":0},"title":"SPOTTED ON SHELVES: Pillsbury Girl Scouts Thin Mints and Caramel &#038; Coconut Baking Mixes","author":"Marvo","date":"June 20, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Hmm. 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