Peppermint Sugar Cubes

These tasty sugar cubes make your coffee less habit and more ritual, they can also be added to hot tea or hot cocoa to sweeten and brighten up their flavor as well. Place them in a pretty airtight jar on your coffee bar, they will last for months and months.
Package some up in a jar with some ribbons and bows, and they make a great gift for a peppermint lover, fellow foodie, or coffee addict!

½ cup sugar
8-10 peppermints, hard not soft
Peppermint extract-optional
Water, spray bottle

A silicone mold

• Unwrap and place peppermints into a small food processor (you could also use a clean coffee grinder) 
• Chop until they are ground up, either rough or until they are a fine powder
• You want the hard mints not the soft ones.
• Stir chopped peppermint into your granulated sugar
• For a very strong peppermint flavor add ¼ tsp peppermint extract.
• Slowly add water, by the teaspoon full or spray it with a water bottle (preferred method).
• Carefully stir and add water until your mixture is just slightly dampened,
• Too much and it’s just flavored sugar water.
• When you squeeze a bit in your hand it should clump together.
• Scoop and press the mixture into a silicone mold
• Be sure to fill in all the corners and then press firmly into place with the back of your spoon.
• 2-3 teaspoons, may not completely fill the mould, but gives a good idea of how much you are adding to your drink.
• Let your peppermint sugar cubes dry overnight
• Remove them carefully from the mold.
• Place them in a pretty airtight jar on your coffee bar

Recipe: Busy Being Jennifer