It’s the beginning of a wonderful season- a season of great Food! Great dinners, treats, soups, etc… I love baking and the cooler weather lends itself nicely to great food! The beginning? Homemade andes mints (or any other flavor you like!).
Aren’t they pretty? And the best part you can do it in any color and flavor. Start with high quality chocolate and use whatever extra flavoring you’d like and this creates a terrific treat! Whatever you do DON’T skimp on the quality of the candy melts. I prefer working with Merkens, Guittards and Callebaut, they taste great and they melt well. You can use dark, semi sweet or milk chocolate and then make sure your colored chocolate are the basic vanilla.
So this was actually one of the VERY first video’s I filmed, BUT I never shared it cause it just didn’t really fit SPRING or SUMMER the way it fit’s into Holiday goodies! So this is pre kitchen makeover completed, but I thought it was still worth sharing! Enjoy!
Homemade Andes mints- this week’s treat
Ingredients
- Jelly Roll pan
- wax paper
- 10-11 oz chocolate wafers I like Guittard and Callebaut
- 10-11 oz green white chocolate I like Merckens and Guittard for this
- 10-11 oz chocolate wafers I like Guittard and Callebaut
- candy oil- peppermint is my go to
Instructions
- Melting the Chocolate:
- Get 3 oven safe bowls.
- Put the chocolate for each layer in three different bowls.
- Put them all in the oven on Warm for 20 mins.
- Then turn off the oven and pull out the first layer (leave the other two bowls in the oven to keep warm).
- Cut the wax paper to fit the length of the pan as well as come up the sides a bit. take some of the melted chocolate in each corner to hold the wax paper in place. Make sure your wax paper is pulled tight across, we don't want any bubbles, bumps or wrinkles in the paper, it will show in the chocolate.
- Stir the bowl of chocolate until it's smooth and add 7 drops of oil based candy flavoring to the bowl.
- Now QUICKLY pour the chocolate around the pan. then starting on the outer edges smooth it with your spatula.
- Then grab the side of the pan and shake/knock it on the table. After a bit of shaking/knocking the chocolate will smooth itself out.
- The key to the next layer is to know when to pour it on! If you pour to soon you'll risk mixing the layers together, they'll still taste great, but not be as pretty. AND if you wait too long the layers won't stick together!
- When the whole layer goes from glossy to matte you're read!
- Grab your colored candy melts out of the oven, add your oils (7 drops) and stir it smooth
- Then spread it over the chocolate layer, and shake it smooth and let it cool until it's matte
- Pull out the last bowl, add the 7 drops of oil and stir it smooth.
- pour it on, spread it out and shake it smooth
- like spreading if you cut to soon you'll mix your layers, if you wait too long you'll shatter the chocolate! Once it's matte take a Sharp knife and cut it!
- I like to cute the rounded edges off (and my husband likes to eat those small edges) and then cut the rest into 2 1/4 inch squares
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Whatever DeeDee Wants
Yum! Yours look so nice and pretty. I am afraid mine wouldn’t look as good 🙂
Ashlee
It’s really quite easy! Not really hard at all. Warm, spread, shake… Repeat. And even if it’s not perfectly smooth you end up cutting them up and it’s hard to tell!
hairyshoefairy
Ooh! I love those! I’ll definitely be giving them a try this year.
Ashlee
They are great! And they not only make a great addition to a goodie plate they are also great melted in hot chocolate!
Kara
I love chocolate mint, so these sound awesome! How the heck do you cut the lines so straight?
Ashlee
I’m just THAT good…. JK. I used a T Square! Works great!
Mandi
Ooh those look so good! The hubs loves mint. 🙂
Ashlee
Who doesn’t!!! Mint and coconut, my favorite flavors (although not together!)
Mindy
@Ashlee, I’m with you on that–nothing better than mint and chocolate or coconut and chocolate! I can’t wait to try this recipe! http://im-in-the-loop.blogspot.com/
Ashlee
Ohhhh I also like Peanut butter and Chocolate! I hope you get to try the mints soon!
Michelle L.
Wow, those look a-mazing!
Ashlee
Thanks! They taste even better!
allyall
I would eat the whole pan. Dangerous! But a great tutorial!
Ashlee
Your nursing, you can get away with it. My problem is I still eat like I’m nursing but I’m not!
Jenn T.
Those look wonderful! Thanks for the recipe!
Ashlee
I hope you enjoy them! They are great!
Ashlee
I’m so glad you like them! I really love finding a fun quick and tasty recipe!
Charlotte
Those look really good, I am totally trying this out. I always called those pans brownie pans, too. I had to call my mother and ask her what a jelly roll pan was the first time I came across it in a recipe.
Ashlee
I’m so glad I wasn’t the only one! But I still aways use them for brownies. I’ve never made a jelly roll. I should probably try at some point for fun!
Christy
Oh my! I’m so trying this…like, yesterday!
Ashlee
Let me know when you try them what you think!
Chelsea
I given you an award! Check it out at my blog, The Crafter’s Anonymous Club.
Ashlee
Thank you so much! That is so SO sweet of you!
Nicole
I had so much enjoyment snatching piece after piece out of your baggie this weekend. So tasty. I’ll have to give them a try.
Ashlee
It was fun sharing a ride! SO much better to road trip than to drive myself! Glad you could make it at the last min!
Kaaro
Hi Ansley. I love your videos on YouTube ???????
Birgit K.
Oh yummy! They look really great!
Ashlee
They ARE really good. The better quality chocolate the more melt in the mouth delicious they become!
Onica @ The Peasant Housewife
I am pretty darn impressed on how straight of lines you got! Those look delicious.
Ashlee
Thanks! The trick is to use a T-square!
Katie @ This Chick Cooks
Yum! I think it might be too dangerous for me to make these- I know I’d want to eat all of them.
Ashlee
Luckily for me my kiddo’s found them and ate most of them for me!
Allison
Hi Ashlee! I have been a follower for a while and have been participating in Topsy Turvey–will you consider putting these mints in my new Tuesday Link Party? Won’t you share it over on Vintage Pollyanna on my Tell Me Tuesday link party? http://vintagepollyanna.blogspot.com/2010/11/join-me-on-tuesdays-for-new-link-party.html
Ashlee
Sure! I’d love to link up! You have a new linky tool, different than I’ve seen before. Do you like it?
The Paper Princess
I LOVE these! Putting them in the file so I can give these a whirl!
Ramona
http://create-with-joy.blogspot.com
Ashlee
They are quick, easy and tastes great! I hope you get around to making some!
Lori S.
Those look DIVINE! I may have to give that recipe a try. It was great to meet you and put a real life face to a blog on Saturday at Boot Camp!
Ashlee
It was SUCH a treat for me! I still think of my blog as this tiny thing that nobody but my friends (whom I bribe) to look at! It was so much fun to meet In PERSON someone who “knows” me! I hope you weren’t TOO overwhelmed Sat. Lots of the choices (wordpress or blogger, etsy or not, more of this or that, changing names, domain, etc….) come about naturally as you find your path. Just make sure your having FUN and that’s it’s enjoyable, not one more “chore” in our busy lives and you’ll find the right answers for you!
T
I know, I know… I will turn in my woman card after this confession – but I don’t like milk chocolate… or dark chocolate… you think white chocolate would work? a nice raspberry filling in the middle??? oh, shoot – all these yummy blog recipes on a day I’m trying to work off my Bloggy Boot Camp overindulgence is maybe not my best plan…
Ashlee
No biggie, your not the only one. You don’t have to go with the chocolate flavored ones, you can pick any of the colored (or not colored- white) ones you want and the favors are compltely determined by which oils you use! So white chocolate and raspberry are totally acceptable!
Christina
Looks awesome! I can’t wait to try making these!
Ashlee
Let me know when you do! They really are fun and delicious!
Gail Jacobson
I’m inspired!
Ashlee
I’m so glad! Now get baking/cooking/melting!