450g/1lb Icing sugar
peppermint essence
Green food colouring (Optional)
Beat the egg white until frothy but not stiff.
Add the icing sugar (just enough to form a stiff mixture) add a few drops of peppermint essence and kneed until the colour is even.
Roll onto a lightly icing sugared surface and cut into small shapes or roll into small balls and flatten with a fork.
Place onto greaseproof paper and leave to dry out for 24 hours
Just a minor tip but if you replace the egg with water they taste just as nice and the bonus is they keep longer as there is no egg to go off - oh and any pregnant friends can eat them too as there is no raw egg in them.
Equally nice are orange creams, just replace the peppermint with orange flavoring and the green coloring with orange, and lemon creams with lemon flavoring and yellow coloring.
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