Hookery Cookery Home > Christmas Recipes > Chocolate and Mint Creams Makes about 20
Description/Notes:
Cute and colourfull mint creams to adorn your Christmas table
Ingredients:
Cooking Instructions:
- Gradually fold in the egg white into 6 oz. of the icing sugar until stiff
- Add the rest of the icing sugar and the peppermint essence then knead to form a stiff paste
- Divide the paste into three pieces, adding red colouring to one, green colouring to a second and leaving the third piece plain
- Lightly dust a work surface with icing sugar then roll out each piece of paste to a thickness of about a quarter of an inch (5mm)
- Cut into one and a half inch (3.5cm) rounds with a round or fluted biscuit cutter
- transfer to a sheet of greaseproof paper and leave overnight
- Gently melt the cooking chocolate in a bowl over hot water
- Carefully dip half of each mint cream in the chocolate then lay on a wire rack to set