The next time you have chocolate mint craving, make these mint-infused Junior Mint Brownies! Fudgy brownies crafted with melted Junior Mints, they are perfect for indulging after dinner or sharing at gatherings, these decadent treats are best enjoyed with a scoop of vanilla ice cream!
❤️ Why you'll love it
Irresistible flavor combination: it offers the perfect balance of chocolate and bursting mint flavor.
Portable: these brownies are easily portable and perfect for potlucks and picnics.
Versatile: Easy to change the junior mint to another candy that will melt easily with butter!
🥘 Ingredients
Cooking spray
Butter
Junior mints: these are small-size mints coated in pure chocolate
All-purpose flour
Baking soda
Salt
Sugar
Unsweetened cocoa powder
Large eggs
🔪 Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Coat bottom of an 8-inch square baking pan with cooking spray. Set aside.
- Combine butter and mints in a 2-cup glass measure. Microwave on high for 30 seconds or mints and butter are soft. Remove from microwave and stir together until smooth. Set aside.
- In a large bowl, combine flour, baking soda, and salt.
- In a separate large bowl, add sugar, unsweetened cocoa, egg, and egg white. Using an electric mixer, combine wet ingredients at medium speed until well-blended.
- Add melted chocolate mint mixture to egg mixture and mix well.
- Add flour mixture to egg mixture mix brownie batter at at low speed just until blended.
- Pour batter into prepared pan, scraping sides and bottom with a rubber scraper. Decorate top of brownies with extra junior mints, if desired.
- Bake brownies at 350 degrees for 20 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean; cool completely on a wire rack.
🥄 Equipment
Square pan (8 x 8 inch)
Glass measuring cup (or microwave safe bowl)
Dry measuring cups
Large mixing bowl
Electric mixer
Rubber scraper
Cooling rack
🥫Storing Junior Mint Brownies
Room temperature: store in an airtight container up to 5 days.
Freezer: store in a freezer safe container up to 3 months.
📖 Variations
- Substitute andes mints or mint chocolate chips for the junior mints.
- Junior mints also make specialty flavors! Try the junior caramel or peppermint crunch in place of the mint.
- Stir in ½ teaspoon peppermint extract for a more intense mint flavor.
💭 Tips
- To measure flour, use a tablespoon and stir the flour, then lightly spoon flour into the dry measuring cup. Do not tap cup, this will pack too much flour. Rather, once cup is filled, use the handle of the tablespoon to scrape across the top of the measuring cup, removing excess flour from cup.
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🍽 Serve with..
Serve with a scoop of vanilla ice cream or mint chocolate chip ice cream.
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Cristine says
Oh wow! These look FANTASTIC! You tempt me so.....
Donna says
Hey Girl!
Thanks for the link love! All of a sudden I started getting a number of hits from your blog! I'm thinking, what's up? And there's a link to my Nutella Brownies! Thanks! I owe you one!
Amanda says
Wow those look amazing! I will definitely be trying these 🙂
Mary Ann says
Oh, junior mints are my favorite! These are definitely getting made soon, if I don't eat all the candy first!
Jenny says
OH how I love Jr Mints, these brownies look beautiful!!
Sam Sotiropoulos says
Oh! You found my weak spot with this one... I am a chocolate monster and I am certain I could eat a whole pan of this exceedingly moist looking batch of brownies! The addition of the choco-mints is a nice touch! Mint chocolate treats have always been one of my weaknesses... Glutton that I can be, I used to eat entire boxes of "After-Eight" mints in one sitting 🙂 Gulp!
tamilyn says
Yum-O to quote RR. Those look delish!
Matt's Kitchen says
I loved junior mints as a kid.I will be making these. What a brilliant combination! I even have the recipe for these in one of my Cooking Light books. How did I never notice it before? Thanks for sharing it!
Dee says
If there were a jr. mint to be had anywhere in Mexico I would be baking these! I am bound to bake a batch of brownies soon after you & Mistress have made me dream of chocolate in it's highest form! Beautiful brownie photos!
Jessie says
Junior Mints,Brownies and Chocolate? I'm sold! and I love that it is light 🙂
averagebetty says
Perfect for the mint lovers in your life - I bet these blow away those dry, processed Thin Mint GS cookies any day! Love it HoneyB 🙂
The Peanut Butter Boy says
Darn those look good. I've never had a mint brownie actually, I can't see it being better than a good ol' chocolate one!
JyLnC says
I love Junior Mints and I will definitely copy and try this recipe!
Bellini Valli says
We are on the same wave length HoneyB...I have had brownbies on my mind too. These are from Cooking Light so have an added bonus!!
nicole says
Mmmm... these brownies look yummy!
pinkstripes says
I love junior mints. They're my favorite movie treat.
Your brownies look delicious. I can't believe they are a cooking light recipe.
Laura says
Your comment re: Grumpy cracked me up! These look great--I might need to make MORE brownies soon! Do you think they would work well with miniature baking York peppermint patties also? I have some sitting in the cupboard....
Reeni♥ says
I love Junior Mints. These look so lovely, yummy!
Linda says
I could take a bite of one these right now! My husband will love these!
Creative One says
Randy would love these brownies, he is a big fan of mints.
Gera says
Big fan of mint brownies so delicious..yeah chocolatey goodness! Thanks so much Shelby 🙂
Gera .:. sweetsfoods
Pam says
My Junior Mint loving husband and children would love these little beauties. Excellent recipe.
Robin Sue says
Great idea for junior mints! Everytime I think of junior mints of think of that Seinfeld episode when Kramer dropped a junior mint down into someone getting sugery. Did you see that one? Anyway these look so fudgy and yummy!
Jessie says
Love, love, love it! Junior Mints are the best. Thanks so much! 😀
+Jessie
a.k.a. The Hungry Mouse
Veronica says
I love Junior Mints!! These look very moist for a "light" brownie.
Katypi says
I just happen to have some Junior Mints sitting on my kitchen counter....
AK Mom says
Junior Mints in brownies...what a wonderful idea!!
These brownies look really yummy!!
5 Star Foodie says
These brownies look really good and I certainly have a craving for chocolate now!
Bob says
Those look wicked good. I'm trying to cook lighter too, I'll have to snag this recipe. 🙂
Happy cook says
They looks so yummy delicious. The pic is just calling me saying eat me eat me 🙂
Cathy says
Light!!!...with junior mints. Too good to be true.
They look so fudgy and chewy. Yum.
Carrie says
Yum!! Those look divine in their chocolatey-ness.
Meg says
Junior mints + brownies = LOVE!
Tangled Noodle says
Junior Mints are usually my movie theater treat but now I have reason to have them at home. Mr. Noodle will love these - chocolate and mint combo is his favorite! Thank you for saving then sharing this recipe.
Patsyk says
I made another CL brownie recipe... it should be posted by Friday. These look great, not sure how I missed marking them to try! They go on the list now!
Debbie says
I absolutely love Junior mints!! And these are in a brownie....how good can it get! Thanks for this recipe.
pigpigscorner says
Wow that looks amazing! and loving the word light!
natalia says
Wow thwsw are super I love mint and chocolate ! I wonder if I could find some chocolate mint 'balls' around ! About saltines (a bit late..) we have them and just call them 'i ritz' !! Baci
Cakelaw says
Low fat and oozing with chocolate - what could be more perfect!
noble pig says
I don't think you could have posted anything more awesome. I am in heaven...I mean seriously!
Barbara Bakes says
Mint brownies are great! I never would have thought of melting the mints and mixing them in. Did you really cut an 8 inch pan into 16 pieces?
Shelby says
I made these again today and I cut the brownies into 16 pieces 🙂 4 brownies x 4 brownies (=16!) 🙂