These old-fashioned Cream Cheese Mints are a nostalgic Christmas candy recipe made with just 5 simple ingredients!
Course Dessert, Snack
Cuisine Holiday
Keyword butter, Butter Mints, Holiday Butter Mints, mint
Prep Time 30 minutesminutes
Chilling Time 4 hourshours
Total Time 4 hourshours30 minutesminutes
Servings 48Mints
Calories 74kcal
Author Stacey aka the Soccer Mom
Cost $12
Equipment
Baking sheet
Parchment paper
Electric mixer
large bowl
Ingredients
8ozcream cheesesoftened
¼cupunsalted buttersoftened
2tspmint extract
5cupspowdered sugarplus more for sprinkling
Green and red food coloring
Instructions
To Prep: line a baking sheet with parchment paper and dust with powdered sugar. Make sure the pan can fit in the fridge.
Cream together the butter, cream cheese, and peppermint extract with an electric mixer on low speed.
Add powdered sugar, one cup at a time, until everything is combined and smooth.
Divide the cream cheese mixture equally among three bowls. Tint one bowl green and one bowl red and leave the third bowl white. Cover the bowls and chill for an hour until firm.
Once the dough is firm, portion out into balls that are a heaping teaspoon each. Place them on your prepared baking sheet.
Once all the mints have been portioned into balls, press each of the balls into a disc using the tines of a fork.
Place the sheet pan back in the fridge and allow to harden for an additional 2-4 hours.
Notes
Nutrition information is provided as an estimate only.