Ingredients: |
Ingredients: 1/4 cup butter, softened
1/4 tsp. salt
3 1/4 cups confectioners’ sugar plus 1/4 cup, if needed
1/3 cup sweetened condensed milk
1/2 tsp. peppermint extract
food coloring, optional
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Directions: |
Directions:1. With an electric mixer, combine butter and salt and beat for 1 minute on medium-high speed.
2. Add 3 1/4 cups confectioners’ sugar, milk, peppermint, and beat on medium-low speed until a dough forms. If the dough seems wet, add additional confectioners’ sugar until dough combines. The dough will be crumbly but will come together when pinched and squeezed into a ball.
3. Taste the batter. If you want a more intense mint flavor, add additional mint extract, to taste.
4. Remove dough from the mixer, separate it into 1 to 4 smaller balls, and add one ball back into the mixer.
5. Add the food coloring of your choice to the ball by squirting the droplets on top of the dough, mixing on low speed until coloring is well-blended. Coloring will not blend completely into each and every speck of dough if examined extremely closely, but overall, mix until color is uniform.
6. Wash the mixing bowl and the mixer in between each color change and repeat until all the balls are colored. After the dough has been colored, either wrap it with plastic wrap and place it in an airtight container in the refrigerator to be rolled out later or roll it immediately.
7. Place a golf-ball sized amount of dough in your hands and roll dough into long thin cylinders about 1 centimeter wide. Place cylinders on countertop and with a pizza cutter or knife, slice cylinders into bite-sized pieces, approximately 1 centimeter long.
8. Store mints in an airtight container in the refrigerator where they will keep for many weeks. |
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