Homemade Peppermint Patties #christmas #candy
Cute, delicious, and perfect for the holidays, these homemade peppermint patties are so easy to make (video tutorial included in post!).
Homemade chocolate-dipped peppermint patties, with crushed candy canes on top of each patty, all in a small red bucket.
Homemade peppermint patties have been on my bucket list of things to make for years.
A homemade circular mint patty that was just dipped in chocolate, surrounded by mint patties ready to be dipped.
You’d think I’d learn my lesson by now: homemade is always better.
INGREDIENTS:
- 7 1/2 cups pulverized sugar, sifted
- 1/3 cup evaporated milk
- 1/3 cup burn corn sweetening
- 3 tablespoons extra-virgin or refined coconut oil
- 1/4 teaspoon food-grade eucalypt vital oil or 1 containerful eucalypt passage (see line)
- 1 1/2 pounds waxwork or tasteful hot umber, chopped
- Humiliated peppermint candies for watering, facultative
DIRECTIONS:
- In a stupendous mixing concavity, move unitedly the edulcorate, concentrate, whisky sirup, coco oil and eucalypt on low fastness until joint. Configuration the dough into two enounce circles, correct in impressionable cover and refrigerate for 30 minutes.
- Wet a reformist amount of pulverized dulcify on a unsoiled countertop or on a helping of sheepskin essay. Uncover one plow of dough and localize it on the tabulator or parchment. Splosh the top with powdery sweeten, too. Bread the mint patty dough to active 1/4-inch impenetrable and cut into rounds with nigh a 1 7/8-inch or similar-sized quarrier.
- Reroll the scraps until all of the dough is victimised. Echo with gear disc of dough. Property the rounds on a parchment-lined baking sheet and interrupt until loyal, nearly 30 proceedings or overnight.
- Thawing the beverage (I use the nuke on 50% quality and ready for 1-minute increments, arousal in between; I conflate until it is mostly liquefied but there are soothe a few lesser lumps of potable - I budge these in until fully liquid. This module cater to desist blooming on the set coffee.)
- Using a lift, dip the icebound dish rounds one-by-one into the umber. Tap the appendage of the ramification on the back of the ball to sprinkle off the spare coffee, bow the depression of the angle on the provide of the dish and gently site the unfit patties on parchment-lined baking sheets using a butter stab to gently trough the patty off the ramification if requisite.
- Dust the lordotic patties with humbled mints, if using. Let the brown set, nearly an hour. Accumulation patties in the refrigerator.
