Pumpkin Mints is a traditional American recipe for a classic Halloween snack of mint-flavoured candy shaped to resemble miniature pumpkins. The full recipe is presented here and I hope you enjoy this classic American version of: Pumpkin Mints.
Heat the milk and butter gently in a pan until the butter melts then take off the neat and stir-in the icing sugar. Add the oil of peppermint and mix thoroughly.
Turn onto a lightly-sugared work surface and knead with your hands until the fondant is smooth. Cut off about 1/6 of the mix and add green food colouring. Knead so that the fondant becomes coloured and even green then wrap in clingfilm to prevent drying. Add a mix of yellow and red food colouring to the remaining fondant so that the mixture is coloured orange (pumpkin colour).
Tear off small portions of the orange fondant and roll into balls between your hands. Use a toothpick to score the skin of the ball to make grooves like those found on pumpkin skin then roll the green fondant in to green cylinders and use small pieces of this to give the pumpkin a stem. Press to join then set aside as you complete the remaining pumpkins.
