Christmas Peppermint Patties #christmas #candy

You're accomplishment to know this Unproblematic Yuletide Mint Patties direction!  Super relaxed to pee, fantastically festive, and always a hit with kids and adults like.  These holiday treats are the perfect component to cake trays and form an excellent gift for teachers and friends!

These patties love no dimension at all, don't order any hot, use exclusive a few ingredients and are warranted to put a smiling on anyone's braving.  Yes, guaranteed.  Now for those of you who aren't peppermint-crazy similar I am, conceive using a other flavored selection.  Red for the red is ever toothsome and I actually prefabricated the naif ones with candy select which I feel to be perfect for Christmas quantify.

Ingredients:

• ¼ cup butter, softened
• 1 - 2 tsp peppermint extract or mint extract OR any other extract you want
• 3 - 4 cups powdered sugar, divided
• ⅓ cup light corn syrup
• ½ cup granulated sugar (to roll balls in)
• food coloring - preferably gel or paste

Instructions:

1. Consortium butter and grain sirup unitedly in a flyspeck bowl.
2. Shift in your create of prize.
3. Add 2 cups powdered sweetener and mix until healthy compounded.
4. Strike in an additional cup of fine sweetener.
5. Manipulate the collection until the powdery dulcify is wrapped and the dough is completely smoothen, adding added powdered dulcify if requisite.
6. Dissever dough into figure portions.
7. Color one portion red with the red content color/gel and one veggie. Leaving one apportioning river. If the dough gets sticky, manipulate in many fine sweetener, ¼ cup at a time.
8. Cast into ¾ progress balls and drift in granulated dulcorate.
9. Flatten gently with a fork.
10. Let candies standpoint, bald, at domicile temperature for 1 day.
11. Store in an airtight container.

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