Cream Cheese Mints
Cream Cheese Mints – Sweet, delicious, rich, and easy old-fashioned holiday treat made with 6 ingredients. These are perfect for weddings, baby showers, Easter and Christmas!
Servings: 86 Mints
Calories: 28kcal
Ingredients
- ½ Cup Cream Cheese (4 ounce or 113 grams)
- 4 Cups Powdered Sugar
- 1 Tablespoon Unsalted Butter
- A Pinch of Salt
- ¼ Teaspoon Vanilla Extract
- ½ Teaspoon Peppermint Extract
- Gel Food Colors (optional)
Instructions
- Combine cream cheese, butter, salt, vanilla extract and peppermint extract in a large bowl or bowl of a stand mixer.
- Beat using a electric mixer, whisk or spatula until soft and creamy.
- Add 1 cup of powdered sugar at a time to the cream cheese mixture and mix well.
- Add remaining powdered sugar little by little and mix well using a spatula. Make a non-sticky dough.
- If you feel the dough is sticky, add little powdered sugar and mix again.
- Divide the mint dough into 4 parts.
- Mix in few drops of the desired gel food colors until evenly incorporated.
- Line a baking sheet with parchment paper or wax paper and keep it aside. Take a teaspoon of dough and roll into round balls.
- Roll a couple of balls at a time and arrange them on the lined cookie sheet.
- Dip a fork in powdered sugar and flatten each dough ball gently. Repeat the process with remaining dough.
- Let them air dry overnight until they are firm. Serve and enjoy!
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Nutrition
Calories: 28kcal | Carbohydrates: 6g | Protein: 0.1g | Fat: 1g | Saturated Fat: 0.4g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.02g | Monounsaturated Fat: 0.2g | Trans Fat: 0.01g | Cholesterol: 2mg | Sodium: 4mg | Potassium: 2mg | Sugar: 6g | Vitamin A: 22IU | Calcium: 1mg | Iron: 0.005mg
