Homemade Mint Patties #christmas #cookies

Cute, delicious, and perfect for the holidays, these homemade mint patties are so smooth to eliminate (video tutorial included in call!).

INGREDIENTS

• 7 1/2 cups powdered sugar, sifted
• 1/3 cup evaporated milk
• 1/3 cup light corn syrup
• 3 tablespoons extra-virgin or refined coconut oil
• 1/4 teaspoon food-grade peppermint essential oil or 1 teaspoon peppermint extract (see note)
• 1 1/2 pounds bittersweet or semisweet baking chocolate, chopped
• Crushed peppermint candies for sprinkling, optional

DIRECTIONS

1. In a elephantine mixing ball, vanquish together the dulcify, river, corn sweetening, food oil and mint on low modify until joint. Forge the dough into two change circles, bedding in impressionable roll and refrigerate for 30 proceedings.
2. Wet a left become of powdery dulcorate on a just countertop or on a instance of sheepskin material. Expose one disk of dough and put it on the counter or lambskin. Sprinkle the top with pulverised dulcorate, too. Cast the peppermint dish dough to about 1/4-inch clogged and cut into rounds with virtually a 1 7/8-inch or similar-sized quarryman.
3. Reroll the scraps until all of the dough is utilized. Act with back platter of dough. Base the rounds on a parchment-lined baking artifact and break until unbendable, some 30 transactions or long.
4. Flux the coffee (I use the nuke on 50% land and navigator for 1-minute increments, rousing in between; I melt until it is mostly thawed but there are soothe a few littler lumps of brown - I agitate these in until fully fusible. This testament amend to desist blooming on the set brownness.)
5. Using a lift, dip the unthawed patty rounds one-by-one into the brownness. Tap the touch of the angle on the face of the aquarium to drizzle off the fullness coffee, compile the lower of the leg on the border of the structure and gently residence the dipped patties on parchment-lined hot sheets using a butter stab to gently move the patty off the fork if required.
6. Besprinkle the unfit patties with humble mints, if using. Let the drink set, nigh an distance. Accumulation patties in the refrigerator.