Creme De Menthe Truffles
- 1/2 cup whipping cream
- 1 (10 ounce) bag creme de menthe baking chips
- 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
- 10 ounces vanilla candy coating or 10 ounces almond bark
- 2 drops green food coloring
- In a 2 quart saucepan, heat whipping cream over low heat 2-3 minutes or until cream is warm.
- Remove from heat.
- Add creme de menthe baking chips and chocolate chips.
- Stir until melted and smooth.
- Pour into a wax paper lined 9x13 baking dish.
- Cover and refrigerate 1 hour or til firm.
- Line cookie sheets with waxed paper.
- Turn out onto wax paper lined cutting board.
- Cut into squares.
- Put squares 2 inches apart on cookie sheets.
- Refrigerate 30 minutes.
- In deep 1 quart saucepan, melt candy coating (almond bark) over low heat, stirring constantly until smooth.
- Remove from heat.
- Cool 10 minutes.
- In a small ziptop bag, pour 1/4 cup melted coating and the 2 drops of green food coloring.
- Seal bag and mix until color is evenly mixed.
- Set aside.
- Using a fork, dip 1 truffle at a time into white candy coating to coat.
- Return to waxed paper lined cookie sheets.
- Cut off a tiny piece of the corner of the ziptop bag containing green mixture.
- Squeeze bag to drizzle each dipped truffle with green mixture.
- Let truffles stand 10 minutes.
- Store in the refrigerator.
- You can put each truffle in an individual mini foil muffin cup if you want.
whipping cream, creme, semisweet chocolate chips, coating
Taken from www.food.com/recipe/creme-de-menthe-truffles-194858 (may not work)