Dining Food FOOD AND TRAVEL Recipes

Yum Alert: Pastel Peppermint Patties

Pastel Peppermint Patties
Written by emilyc

Pastel Peppermint Patties

The usual peppermint patty can be so boring in all its black-and-whiteness. Sometimes, you just need to add a little visual interest to your candies and make them gorgeous pastels. Recipe and image via Sweetapolita.

Ingredients:

For the filling:

4 cups (480 g/16 oz) icing sugar (confectioners’)
3 tablespoons (45 grams) unsalted butter, softened
4 tablespoons (60 ml) evaporated milk
1/4 teaspoon (1.25 mL) peppermint oil (ideally food grade oil rather than extract)
3/4 tsp (3.75 mL) pure vanilla extract

For the Coating:

1 lb (454 g) best-quality white chocolate couverture, chopped
soft gel paste colour, optional

You will also need:

candy thermometer

For preparation instructions, click here.

About the author

emilyc

Emily is a New Yorker trapped in a Floridian's body and loves every minute of her big city life. With a major in international business and years of being surrounded by ill-fitting suits and all the wrong shoes, she learned that the importance of fashion needs to be communicated to the world. To her, fashion is on the same level as charity work and feeding hungry children. Emily can be found frolicking the streets of her gayborhood enjoying the off-color humor of the gays.