Creme De Menthe Truffles

Total Time: 4 hrs 45 mins Preparation Time: 45 mins Cook Time: 4 hrs

Ingredients

• 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

Recipe

• 1 in a 2 quart saucepan, heat whipping cream over low heat 2-3 minutes or until cream is warm.
• 2 remove from heat.
• 3 add creme de menthe baking chips and chocolate chips.
• 4 stir until melted and smooth.
• 5 pour into a wax paper lined 9x13 baking dish.
• 6 cover and refrigerate 1 hour or til firm.
• 7 line cookie sheets with waxed paper.
• 8 turn out onto wax paper lined cutting board.
• 9 cut into squares.
• 10 put squares 2 inches apart on cookie sheets.
• 11 refrigerate 30 minutes.
• 12 in deep 1 quart saucepan, melt candy coating (almond bark) over low heat, stirring constantly until smooth.
• 13 remove from heat.
• 14 cool 10 minutes.
• 15 in a small ziptop bag, pour 1/4 cup melted coating and the 2 drops of green food coloring.
• 16 seal bag and mix until color is evenly mixed.
• 17 set aside.
• 18 using a fork, dip 1 truffle at a time into candy coating to coat.
• 19 return to waxed paper lined cookie sheets.
• 20 cut off a tiny piece of the corner of the ziptop bag containing green mixture.
• 21 squeeze bag to drizzle each dipped truffle with green mixture.
• 22 let truffles stand 10 minutes.
• 23 store in the refrigerator.
• 24 you can put each truffle in an individual mini foil muffin cup if you want.