Chocolate Peppermint Creams

I didn’t make anything last week. Bleh. We’ve been going to pre-school open houses constantly it feels like. I wanted to be one of those cool homeschooling moms who lives in the middle of nowhere and has a farm, but my daughter has been asking me whenever we see a bus or a school playground when she can start school, so obviously that isn’t her plan, and I feel like I should respect that. So we’re looking at parent-participation pre-schools. And I don’t live in the middle of nowhere and I don’t have a farm, I have a teeny garden, but that’s beside the point. We did pick a whole pile of February carrots and eat them for lunch on wednesday though. And we watched bugs. Digression.

This week, about the best I can share is the Valentines Day candies we made. (We’re working on some paper-pulp play pizzas, (that’s what’s in the oven baking behind Rebecca) but those are going to be Rebecca’s mess in the end, not mine.) Someone linked to flossie teacakes peppermint hearts recipe which is great. Rebecca mixed the whole thing up. The ‘medium sized mound’ of powdered sugar turns out to be about half of one of those ubiquitous boxes. And we added way too much peppermint essence, about half a teaspoon. That made them awesome like Altoids. My addition, you need to dip these in dark chocolate. Oooooooooooh yah. Since they are solid sugar, the bitter-er the chocolate the better, I think. Do they make chocolate dipped Altoids?