Minted Chocolates

Minted Chocolates

Easy Candy You Can Make!

Ingredients:

1 pound chocolate almond bark

1 pound vanilla almond bark

2 cups fresh mint, finely chopped, in a food processor, if possible

Instructions:

1.  Melt almond barks separately over hot water.  (Follow package instructions.)

2.  Combine chopped mint with chocolate bark and mix well.

3.  Taste.

4.  If not minty enough, add more mint.

5.  You should have a thick mixture, consisting mostly of chopped mint.

6.  Keep the chocolate soft over hot water as you drop small amounts from a buttered spoon into candy papers or a buttered cookie sheet.

7.  As soon as the candies are firm, top each with a spoonful of vanilla almond bark.

8.  Cool.

9.  Store candies in an airtight container at room temperature.

10.  These will keep for several weeks (if you can stay out of them!).

There are several ways you can add color and fun to these candies.  One is to add crushed peppermint candies to the vanilla almond bark before spooning it onto the chocolate portion or just sprinkle them over the candies before the bark cools..  You can also add green food coloring to the vanilla almond bark to give it that classic "minty" color.  You can also make it into larger chunks or slabs and just break off pieces to eat.

Minted Chocolates (with peppermint candies on top and spread into slabs)

Source:

Shaudys, Phyllis. The Pleasure of Herbs. Pownal: Storey Communications, 1986. Print.

or

Shaudys, Phyllis V. Herbal Treasures. Pownal: Storey Communications, 1990. Print.

Photo Credits:

Kitchen Sink Mint:  Photo Credit:  http://www.wallcoo.net/photography/sz_184_Interior_Greenery_1024_02/Interior_herb_HQ153.html

Minted Chocolates:  Photo credit: abakedcreation via Visual hunt / CC BY-NC-ND