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Peppermint Snowballs

12/22/2016

Peppermint Snowballs

Need a last minute idea for a Christmas dinner dessert? Here's your answer: vanilla ice cream rolled in crushed peppermint and set on a bed of chocolate sauce. Yum! What an appropriate treat to serve your guests during the Christmas season. So festive and simple to make, too.

Serves: 12 Preparation time: 25 minutes

Ingredients
1 quart good vanilla ice cream
1 1/2 cups peppermint candy
Good quality chocolate sauce

Directions
1. Crush Peppermint candy by placing broken pieces into a sturdy ziplock bag. Crush with rolling pin or wooden mallet. Pour the crushed candy into a small (not tiny) bowl.
2. Form ice cream into approximately two-inch balls and roll in the crushed peppermint. Place on parchment-lined baking sheet and keep in freezer until ready to serve. If making many of these, freeze small batches at a time to keep ice cream from melting.
3. When ready to serve, pour a "pool" of chocolate a few inches wider than the snowballs on individual plates. Place snowballs in the center. If desired, place a single cookie on the plate too.

I hope you enjoy my recipes. Let me know if you've tried any of them and how they turned out.

Good cooking to you! Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

Linda

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Linda M. Kurth is the creative mind behind such stories as Home of the Heart and the up-coming memoir, God, the Devil and Divorce, as well as the recipes and crafts you'll find in these pages. Here's how this blog began:

"This chicken salad is fabulous" my writer friends told me at our little luncheon. "We want the recipe."

"I've been thinking of starting a recipe blog," I said. "This will be the first dish on it. Will that work for you?"

"Do it!" they urged.

I've thought about creating a cookbook for years, but with all of my other activities, I realize that's not going to happen in the traditional sense. So I'm happy to have this venue to share my favorite dishes and discoveries. I hope you'll find some dishes here that become some of your favorites too.

Peppermint Snowballs

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