Dottie Atkinson'S French Mints - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 box xxxx sugar
1/2 stick butter
1/2 tsp. pure peppermint extract or 12 drops oil flavoring
2 Tbsp. hot water
8 drops food coloring (depending on desired color)

Preparation

Sift
sugar.
Cream the butter and sugar together.
Add water, flavoring
and
food color and mix well by hand.
Roll into marble
size balls and dip in fine sugar.
Press sugared ball down in mold.
Remove any excess mixture to make it even with
the mold and unmold by putting a finger on all 4 corners of
the
mold with
your
thumb
on
the back of the mold and turning out on wax paper.