How to Make a Peppermint Platter

Step-by-Step Guide

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   Step 1: Pre-heat your oven to 350 degrees and gather your ingredients.

   Take your time, as rushing can affect the quality of your platters.
   
   Remember that quality is more important than quantity.
   
   Even if you need to make a lot of plates, it will be more time consuming in the long run if you have to redo any.
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   Step 2: Get your baking sheet

   Be sure that every area the mints may touch is covered by paper, or you may be unable to remove your plate from the pan when the time comes! Tin foil may be used, but it will be extremely difficult to remove from the platter and you may end up with pieces on your plate
   - or a broken plate from trying too hard to remove foil bits! , The mints should be touching or very close together.
   
   Use as many or as few peppermints as you like to create plates and platters of different sizes.
   
   Be Creative! Put some of your peppermint candies in a specific pattern or with different colours or shapes. , If you move the candies in the slightest, gently take the pan out, move the candy back to your preferred position, and place it back into the oven. , Turn on the oven light if possible or leave the door cracked and do not leave the room.
   
   Watch closely
   - the candies may take a few minutes to melt but once they have started to they will do so quickly.
   
   If you aren't careful you won't remove a peppermint plate but an ugly red mess! Mints should look flat and appear melted together when it is done. , This will take several hours, and allowing it to cool overnight would be even better.
   
   Do not put the pan in the refrigerator or freezer to help speed this along.
   
   Your pan will be ruined. ,
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   Step 3: or mold and line it with parchment paper.

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   Step 4: Gather your peppermint candies

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   Step 5: unwrap them

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   Step 6:  and place them in a pattern in your mold or on your baking sheet.

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   Step 7: After finishing your pattern of candies

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   Step 8: carefully place the pan into the oven without shifting the candies.

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   Step 9: Leave the candies in the oven for around 7-8 minutes.

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    Step 10: Once the candies have melted together

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    Step 11: take the pan out of the oven and allow it to cool completely before removing the platter from the pan and the parchment paper or foil.

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    Step 12: Now that your platter or plate is done

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    Step 13: put some cookies

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    Step 14: a cake

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    Step 15: or decorations on it

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    Step 16: sit back

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    Step 17: and enjoy!

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