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Can anyone help , I am having difficulty getting peppermint essence for buttercream have been asked for this flavour has anyone any ideas have searched all shops within my area and I am too late to order online as I need this for sat

Hello Alicain

If you have some mint leaves they can be macerated with a little icing sugar and added to your ingredients. The buttercream may be a very light shade of green. Have a read here http://www.cakeflix.com/blog/making-flavoured-sugar-and-baking-extracts-by-madeitwithlove#respond There is a reference to mint.

Another idea which might work is to crush extra strong mints down into a fine powder and add it into the icing sugar. Melting the mints in a small amount of boiling hot water to make a liquid might also work.

Great idea thanks