Beth Hensperger

Candied Mint Leaves

Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
The Bread Lover's Bread Machine Cookbook: A Master Baker's 300 Favorite Recipes for Perfect-Every-Time Bread-From Every Kind of Machine
The Bread Lover's Bread Machine Cookbook

By Beth Hensperger

Published 2000

  • About

Select nice-looking medium-sized mint leaves from peppermint, spearmint, bergamot, or orange mint plants, all from the mentha family, for decorating your holiday sweet breads.

Ingredients

  • 1 egg white, or powdered egg whites reconstituted with water to equal 1 egg white
  • Juice of 1 lemon

Method

  1. Line a baking sheet with parchment. Combine the egg white with the juice of the lemon in a small bowl. Stir gently until just mixed, do not beat. Place the sugar in another bowl. Dip each leaf into the egg white mixture. Hold over the bowl of sugar and sprinkle each side with sugar. Place on the lined baking sheet. Let dry at room temperature, uncovered, for 24 hours.