Old-Fashioned Cream Cheese Mints

Remember these cream cheese mints? Often served at weddings, bridal showers, and baby showers, you can now enjoy them anytime at home with Blend With Spices‘ recipe. These candies are incredibly easy and fun to make and packed with minty flavors you’ll absolutely love. Be sure to give them a try!

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To make these cream cheese mints, you will need cream cheese, powdered sugar, unsalted butter, salt, vanilla extract, peppermint extract, and gel food colors. The gel food colors are optional, but they make these candies look appetizing.

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Easy Cream Cheese Mints Ingredients

• 1/2 cup of cream cheese
• 4 cups of powdered sugar
• 1 tablespoon of unsalted butter
• a pinch of salt
• 1/4 teaspoon of vanilla extract
• 1/2 teaspoon of peppermint extract
• gel food colors (optional)

How to Make Cream Cheese Mints

Step 1:

Start by combining cream cheese, butter, salt, vanilla extract, and peppermint extract in a large bowl.

Step 2:

Using an electric mixer, beat all the ingredients together until soft and creamy. Alternatively, you can use your stand mixer.

Step 3:

Add 1 cup of powdered sugar at a time, mixing after every addition, until you get a non-sticky dough. If it’s still sticky, add a small amount of powdered sugar and mix again.

Step 4:

Divide the dough into four equal parts.

Step 5:

Add a few drops of the preferred gel food colors into each part. Mix until the dough changes color.

Step 6:

Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Take a teaspoon of the dough and roll it into a ball. Place on the prepared cookie sheet. Repeat with the remaining dough. Make sure to space them apart.

Step 7:

Coat fork in powdered sugar. Use it to flatten each dough ball gently.

Step 8:

Let the mints air dry overnight until they are firm.

Old-Fashioned Cream Cheese Mints