Four-Ingredient Peppermint Patties

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So, let's get something straight right now: EVERY AWESOME RECIPE SHOULD HAVE ONLY FOUR INGREDIENTS.  Let's push Congress to pass that law, pronto.

The blogger over at She Wears Many Hats is responsible for this 'you-can't-eat-too-many-or-you'll-go-into-sugar-shock' recipe... go give her a visit, she wears many hats.  And now, let's pig out.


You'll need four ingredients, as per Congressional law.  Gather up powdered sugar, cream cheese, peppermint extract and semi-sweet chocolate chips.

Take four ounces of cream cheese and let it soften.  Throw it in your mixer and combine it with the peppermint extract and about a pound of powdered sugar.  That was half the bag and it was pretty easy to eyeball when it was right... it needs to be a bit dough-like.

OK, here's where we're going to work fast.  Take a baking sheet and line it with wax paper or parchment paper.  Take a little of the mixture, I used about a tablespoon or so at a time, and roll it up into a ball.

Put it on your wax paper and press the backside of a tablespoon into it to make a dent.

Keep going until you've used up all the mixture.  If you aren't too quick, the mixture will dry out a bit.  The original blogger says to keep a damp towel over the mixing bowl while you're working to keep that from happening, but I was able to do it pretty quickly so that wasn't a big deal for me.  Just be wary.


Also, at this point, your hands will smell like peppermints.


So, here they are:

Pretty maids, all in a row.


Throw this into the fridge for a couple of hours until they get a bit more firm.  Once that happens, take them out and melt one cup of your chocolate.

Put your chocolate into a piping bag or ziploc bag and pipe it into the peppermints.

Oh, brother.  Throw these into the fridge to let the chocolate harden up a bit.  I found it was easiest to eat these at room temperature so the chocolate was easier to bite into.  As if I wouldn't have eaten it anyway.

So. Good.

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