Today was great because I went in to work at 7, thinking I would be there until 7:30pm, and I got to leave at 11am! That is 8 hours of time I did not have before. So what did I do? Bake. Heart day is quickly approaching. I love everything pink and heart shaped, so I'm excited.
I stole this recipe from one of my favorite crafty/picture-filled blogs,
Fly Through Our Window. It is a recipe for homemade peppermint patties. Yum. I had to try. Let me tell you a couple things I learned before I jump to my photo documentation:
1. Too much powdered sugar is not good, which comes as a surprise, since it's great.
2. Darby said hers were too soft, I had the opposite problem.
3. I basically made edible play-doh. Really good-tasting edible play-doh. Fun? Yes.
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here for the original recipe :)
[combine sweetened condensed milk with peppermint extract, and mix powdered sugar in, I recommend to NOT use all 4 cups...mine looked really crumbly before i smooshed it together]
[cut mini heart shapes out of the play-doh peppermint filling]
[maybe put the drop of red food coloring in while it's still somewhat liquid...i maybe waited until the end, so instead of pink peppermint filling, I have red-speckled peppermint filling]
[remember how I said Darby's were too soft, and I had the opposite problem? i threw these in a bowl together about 5 min after I finished cutting them all out..]
[melt 3 cups of chocolate chips and 2 tsp of shortening on low heat, mix, and dip hearts in with fork]
I just threw mine in the fridge hoping it'd speed up the drying process!
Happy heart-day crafting/baking!!
