Peppermint Candy

Peppermint candy is a hard, disk-shaped confection flavored with peppermint oil, often striped red and white. It delivers a brisk, cooling snap and dissolves cleanly; common uses include after-dinner mints, decorating desserts, and crushing for toppings or peppermint bark. Sold mainly as starlight mints and similar hard rounds, typically individually wrapped.

Modern peppermint candies trace to European mint lozenges and 19th-century sugar boiling, spreading through North America with strong ties to winter holiday confections like canes and bark. Production cooks sugar syrups, adds peppermint oil, then pulls, colors, and cuts the mass before wrapping.