White Chocolate Mints

I acquired this candy recipe from a past workmate years ago and had to alter the recipe this year due to a main ingredient being out of stock. The original recipe calls for particular crushed red and green peppermint. I have only ever found it at a specialty store (mainly sells lots of baking items) in Little Rock called Vanness. However, they ran out early this season and were not ordering more. So, I found red and green small candy canes and crushed them for the mint. They worked well. These make great gifts as you can bag a few pieces in small cellophane bags. This batch made about 25+ baggies with about 3 pieces in each. Pic below.

Ingredients:
2 - 12 oz bags of white chocolate morsels
about 38 small candy canes, crushed or 1/2 bag of precrushed red and green peppermint

Instructions:
1. Melt chocolate morsels in a nonstick pan.
2. Take off heat and mix in mint.
3. Pour on cookie sheet. Spread out. Thinning the mix out helps in the breaking process and yields more candy pieces.
4. Sprinkle some mint shavings and cut pieces from candy canes on top to add color as the candy cane does not color the mint like the precrushed red and green peppermints. If you have the colored peppermints, you can opt out of sprinkling any on top as it is quite colorful.
5. Let harden. You can put it in the freezer for a quick harden.
6. Break into desired sizes. I used the tip of a knife and gently put pressure on the candy in the places I wanted it to break. Since this is a very sweet candy, remember not to make the pieces too big.

Small candy canes

Crushed mint

Melted chocolate

Mixed chocolate and mint

Spread out on cookie sheet. Can put wax paper under if want.

Sprinkled mint on top

Broken candy pieces

Bagged for gifts