Chocolate and Mint Creams

Makes about 20

Description/Notes:

Cute and colourfull mint creams to adorn your Christmas table

Ingredients:

8 oz. (225g) cooking chocolate, plain or milk

1 tsp. peppermint essence

1 egg white

8 oz. (225g) icing sugar

red and green food colouring

Cooking Instructions:

Gradually fold in the egg white into 6 oz. of the icing sugar until stiff
Add the rest of the icing sugar and the peppermint essence then knead to form a stiff paste
Divide the paste into three pieces, adding red colouring to one, green colouring to a second and leaving the third piece plain
Lightly dust a work surface with icing sugar then roll out each piece of paste to a thickness of about a quarter of an inch (5mm)
Cut into one and a half inch (3.5cm) rounds with a round or fluted biscuit cutter
transfer to a sheet of greaseproof paper and leave overnight
Gently melt the cooking chocolate in a bowl over hot water
Carefully dip half of each mint cream in the chocolate then lay on a wire rack to set