After Dinner Mints
- Ready In:
- 1hr 30mins
- Ingredients:
- 6
- Yields:
-
170 mints (roughly)
ingredients
- 1⁄2 cup water
- 3 (1/4 ounce) packages unflavored gelatin
- 1 1⁄2 teaspoons peppermint extract
- 2 cups icing sugar
- 1⁄4 teaspoon baking powder
- 4 cups icing sugar
directions
- pour water into a medium sauce pan. Sprinkle gelatin over top and let stand for 2 minutes. Heat and stir over medium heat till gelatin is desolved. Remove from heat.
- Add flavoring.
- Add 2 cups icing sugar and baking powder, mix well.
- Add 4 cups icing sugar and kneed with hands till creamy. It may be sticky so keep dusting hands with icing sugar.
- Divide into 4 portions, Keep portions not being worked with covered with plastic wrap.
- Roll into long cigar shape about a half inch in diameter.
- Cut into 1/2 inch pieces with scisors and place on wax-paper lined baking sheet in a single layer.
- Repeat with other portions and let stand 1 hour to set.
- Store in plastic bags.
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Alia55
Canada
After several floods to my basement, I am starting to input all of the many many recipes that I've been collecting for years. I didn't realize just how many I had saved up... must make note to self.. step away from the cookbooks!