After Dinner Mints

Ingredients

1 egg white
2 1/2 Cups CSR Icing Sugar
1 teaspoon Peppermint essence
1 teaspoon raspberry essence(optional)
1 teaspoon pineapple essence(optional)

COATING
4oz butter
3 Tablespoons cocoa
6 Tablespoons milk
1/2 cup CSR Caster Sugar
2 cups rolled oats
3/4 cup coconut

ICING:
Cooking chocolate/buttons melted

Method

In a bowl, beat egg white until stiff, add essence and icing sugar and mix together.
Divide mixture between 3 bowls and add a different essence to each bowl so you have 3 different flavours. Place in fridge for 1 hour.
Roll into small balls (about 1/4 - 1/2 tsp), place on an oven tray and then put back in fridge till set.

COATING:
Melt butter and sugar together.
Add rolled oats, cocoa, milk, coconut and mix well.
Roll peppermint/raspberry & pinapple balls into chocolate mixture, about a dessertspoon. (Place mixture in palm of hand, place ball in middle and work around till covered.)
Coat the balls in coconut and when finished keep them in the fridge.
Store in an airtight container.

ICING:
Melt chocolate till a nice texture to dip some of the After Dinner Mints in. Leave to dry on grease proof paper on a tray.

Makes approx 40

Comments

You can buy pineapple essence from Rawleigh's which is colour free, so I add yellow food colouring.
To dip the After Dinner Mints in the chocolate I have got a wire swirly spoon from Spotlight so it gives that swirled affect.

Caster Sugar

Ingredients: cane sugar

Caster sugar dissolves easily so it is ideal for meringues, puddings, jellies and cake mixes. When used in baking, the smaller sugar crystals caramelise evenly so it produces a fine golden colour in the finished product.
Being a superfine white sugar it can be used as a dry topping, often sprinkled over fruits or baked goods as a light dusting finish.

Pure Icing Sugar

Ingredients: cane sugar

While no cake would be complete without it, icing sugar can also be used to make goodies such as shortbread, cream fillings, marshmallow, and fondant; anywhere a smooth, soft finished texture is required. CSR Pure Icing Sugar is the perfect icing sugar for all your traditional and decorative special icing needs. As CSR Pure Icing Sugar is 100% natural sugar this ensures the icing has a firm setting quality every time.