mints

How To Make mints

• 1

  Cream butter.
• 2

  Work salt and sugar into butter, adding the cream as needed.
• 3

  Put in peppermint and coloring.
• 4

  Dough should be workable but fairly stiff.
• 5

  Add sugar to thicken or cream to thin.
• 6

  Roll on surface dusted with powdered sugar and cut with a tiny aspic cutter or run through a pastry tube.
• 7

  Store in a tin between layers of waxed paper. Makes about 200 mints the size of a quarter.
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