Cream Cheese Mints
Learn how to make creamy, melt-in-your-mouth, homemade cream cheese mints with 5 simple ingredients! Perfect for weddings, baby showers, banquets, Christmas, or party favors. You'll love this easy recipe for holidays and special occasions. No cooking required!
Servings 35
Equipment
Ingredients
- 4 oz cream cheese room temperature
- 2 tablespoon butter room temperature
- 4 ½ cups powdered sugar
- 1 teaspoon peppermint extract
- 4 drops food coloring divided (1 drop per color)
Instructions
- Combine cream cheese and butter. Using an electric mixer, in a larger bowl, beat together the cream cheese and butter until smooth and peaks are formed.
- Add peppermint extract and powdered sugar. Add peppermint extract and powdered sugar, one cup at a time, until it gets hard to mix. Divide candy dough. Divide mixture equally into 4 separate bowls or as many colors as you would like to have.
- Color dough. Add 1 small drop of food dye of choice into each bowl and stir well.
- Form your mints. Take a round ½ teaspoon, scoop up some dough, level off, and pop it out of the measuring spoon. If you don't have a round measuring scoop, gently roll ½ teaspoon of dough into a ball with the palm of your hand.Place mints on parchment paper.
- Imprint mints. Use the tines of a fork to make an imprint in each of the mints.
- Let harden. Allow mints to slightly dry out and start to harden for about 3 hours at room temperature (or 2 hours in the fridge).Once hardened, store mints in an airtight container in the fridge.
Notes
- It helps to let the dough slightly dry, before molding into mints, as it will be easier to work with.
- If making 4 different colors, you should measure out about ½ cup of dough per bowl before adding the food dye.
