PEPPERMINT PATTIES
¾ can condensed milk
3 to 4 cups of icing sugar
2 tablespoon soft butter
2 teaspoons peppermint essence or ½ teaspoons peppermint oil
Add the condensed milk to a mixing bowl. You beat a cup of icing sugar in at a time. Add the butter and flavouring and mix.
You do this until the mixture looks like play dough no longer sticky. You can either shape the mixture into a sausage using wax paper. Cut into slices about half cm thick. I then took a small star cutter and cut star shapes
It was my choice to dip these in dark melted chocolate . Left on wax paper to dry. You can colour the mixture green or red.
This put into a nice jar or bowl makes a nice Christmas gift.
BRON – Pat Southwood-Theron
