Recipe of Award-winning Homemade Buttermints
Hey everyone, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, homemade buttermints. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Homemade Buttermints is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions daily. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Homemade Buttermints is something that I have loved my entire life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have homemade buttermints using 5 ingredients and 18 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Homemade Buttermints:
- Get 1/2 cup unsalted butter, chilled cut into 1 inch pieces
- Get 4 cups confectioners' sugar
- Take 1/2 teaspoon peppermint extract
- Get 2 tablespoons whole milk
- Make ready food coloring (optional)
Instructions to make Homemade Buttermints:
- Beat chilled and diced butter with a hand mixer or a stand mixer on low until creamy and smooth
- Add confectioners’ sugar 1 cup at a time scraping the sides of the bowl as needed
- Increasing speed to medium-high mix sugar and butter until thoroughly combined. The consistency will be like grated Parmesan cheese.
- Add the 2 tablespoons of milk
- Add the 1/2 teaspoon of peppermint extract
- Continue to beat until smooth
- Consistency should be like thick frosting
- Make dough into a ball, several balls if adding food coloring
- Add the food coloring. I used a powder dye and sprinkled about 1/4 teaspoon into the dough ball
- Knead the dye in with your hands
- Cover dough balls with plastic wrap while working to prevent them from drying out.
- Dust a flat surface with confectioners’ sugar
- Make smaller balls golfball sized and roll into logs, straw-like shaped
- Using a knife or pizza cutter cut pieces off the log
- When finished cutting lay in a single layer on a paper towel lined cookie sheet or plate
- Dust the tops of the candies with confectioners’ sugar
- Allow to air dry at room temperature for about 12 hours
- When candies are firm store in an airtight container
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