Homemade Junior Mints Recipe With Natural Ingredients

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Creating do-it-yourself copycat recipes, like pineapple whip or Asian lettuce wraps is a pastime of mine. The newest within the lineup is do-it-yourself Junior Mints. With just some easy components, these are straightforward, tasty, and enjoyable to pop in your mouth.

Making Junior Mints at Home

Candy making could be a difficult course of! Sugars normally should be heated to a sure temperature for a selected period of time. Unlike some kinds of do-it-yourself sweet, you don’t have to fret about that with these dairy-free Junior Mints lookalikes.

It took some trial and error, but it surely seems that coconut oil, a bit honey, and a bit peppermint extract or peppermint important oil style simply pretty much as good if not higher than the actual factor!

Tip: The coconut oil should be mushy sufficient to simply combine within the honey and mint. If it’s not, you’ll have to soften it, combine within the different components, after which chill it earlier than making it into balls or patties.

Chill the combination, then type it into no matter form and measurement you’d like. Kids love to assist with this half, which is why we ended up with quite a lot of attention-grabbing wanting lumps as a substitute of the standard flat oval form. I determine it provides character and a private contact!

Finally, chill the fashioned mints earlier than being dipping them into melted chocolate. One remaining chill and so they’re carried out!

Differences Between Homemade and Store-Bought Junior Mints

Store-bought Junior Mints are recognized for his or her mushy, barely melty heart. An enzyme referred to as invertase is used to make that occur. Invertase breaks the sucrose in sugar down into glucose and fructose and makes it mushy and runny.

Since I make do-it-yourself Junior Mints with coconut oil and honey, they’re a bit firmer at room temperature. However, coconut oil melts at such a low temperature that the heat of your mouth will trigger it to get fairly melty all by itself.

The different distinction you’ll discover between do-it-yourself and store-bought is the distinction in shininess. Store-bought Junior Mints are coated with confectioner’s glaze, which is manufactured from a resin excreted by beetles.

Sorry, however I’m not coating my pretty chocolate-covered peppermint balls in beetlejuice simply to make them shiny! I’m additionally not going to fiddle round with tempering chocolate completely. Life is simply too quick and so they’re scrumptious with out the added bother!

A Couple More Homemade Candy Recipes to Try

I take advantage of coconut oil for the bottom of most of my do-it-yourself confections. I’ve used it to make:

I doubt that these Junior Mints could have an opportunity to take a seat round the home for greater than a few days, however when you have further, attempt mixing them into do-it-yourself ice cream or a milkshake! Confession: My husband and I made this boozy Junior Mints milkshake for St. Patrick’s Day one yr. (For a more healthy model use my do-it-yourself mint chip ice cream made with avocados to make it!)