Aileen'S Mints

5 ingredients
8 steps

Ingredients

  • 3/4 box confectioners sugar
  • 1 egg white
  • lump of soft butter
  • 3 to 5 drops oil of peppermint (buy in drugstore)
  • 1 Tbsp. cream, condensed milk, etc.

Directions

  1. 1
    Start with 3/4 box of confectioners sugar; add egg white, butter and oil of peppermint.
  2. 2
    Add cream.
  3. 3
    Start mixing together until it's a batter like dough; keep working with it adding a little cream until dough becomes creamy, working with hands all the time.
  4. 4
    Pinch off a little; roll it and cut it like mints. That's all there is to it.
  5. 5
    Make sure dough is creamy.
  6. 6
    If it is too dry, it won't roll out, it just crumbles.
  7. 7
    Be sure not to get too much cream at a time or you'll have to add more and more sugar.
  8. 8
    You can use up to two boxes of sugar and add food coloring.

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