Your guests will enjoy these perfect after-dinner mints, “Mint Chocolate Stars”.  Bring them out with your dessert…have coffee and tea…and these mint chocolate stars.

Mint Chocolate Stars Recipe

Mint Chocolate Stars

6 oz. chocolate-flavored candy coating, cut into pieces

6 oz. (1 cup) milk chocolate chips

¼ cup dairy sour cream, room temperature

¼ tsp. mint extract

12 spearmint leaf gumdrops candies, cut into fourths

 

Line cookie sheets with waxed paper.  In a small saucepan, melt chocolate-flavored candy coating and milk chocolate chips over low heat; stirring constantly.  Remove from heat; whisk in sour cream and mint extract.  Fill pastry bag with chocolate mixture and fit with star tip.  Pipe chocolate mixture into 1 inch stars on waxed paper-lined cookie sheets.  Garnish top of each candy with spearmint gumdrop piece.  Refrigerate until candy is set.   4 dozen candies.

(Recipe for the Mint Chocolate Stars was in Pillsbury Classic Cookbook; Chocolate Lovers IV, Anytime Treats, Brownies Galore, Irresistible Desserts; February 1990, page 85)

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