Homemade Frango Mints

Recipe Rating:	1 Rating5
Categories:	Candies, Chocolate, Other Desserts, Quick & Easy, For Kids, Vegetarian
Keywords:	butter, green, chips, sugar, Vanilla, powdered, milk, mint, homemade, Brown, Egg, confectioners, mints, extract, dark, Dipping, pure, wilton, Frango, discs
Prep Time:	1 Hr

Ingredients

1 1/3 c	confectioners' sugar
2 stk	butter
1 x lg	egg
1 tsp	pure vanilla extract
1 cap	mint extract
12 oz pkg	chocolate chips, milk or dark - your choice
	wilton dipping chocolate discs (brown &/or green)

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Kimmi Knippel (Sweet_Memories)

Cooked to Perfection

Cullowhee, NC (pop. 41,052)

KimmiK

Member Since Apr 2011

Kimmi's Notes:

Frango mints are a brand of chocolate truffles 1st created for the Frederick & Nelson department stores. Traditionally flavored with mint & widely popularized by the Marshall Field & Company department store, now produced & distributed by Macy's department stores.

Frangos were created in 1918; the company & Frango trademarks were both acquired by Chicago's Marshall Field's department store, which introduced its recipe in 1929. For many years, Frango mints were produced in large melting pots on the on 13th floor of the flagship Marshall Field's store on State Street in Chicago, IL.

Directions

In a stand mixer, beat the sugar & butter until smooth. Scrape down the sides of the bowl. Add the egg, vanilla & mint; mix until combined.

Melt the chocolate chips in the microwave or a double boiler & add to the sugar mixture. Spread in a greased 8" X 8" pan & cool in the freezer for 30 minutes.

While the fudge is cooling, melt the dipping chocolate according to package directions. Cut the fudge into 1 1/2" rectangles & dip in the melted dipping chocolate.

NOTE: You must refrigerate these because of the raw egg.