Cream Cheese Mints are a quick & easy food gift. With only 4 ingredients, these babies are easy to make and are the perfect 'after dinner mint' (According to Betty Crocker).
The dough is soft enough to pipe into little star-shaped pastels, or you can roll it and shape it however you like. (It's the perfect recipe for candy molds, if you have those.)
I found this recipe over at Mandy's Recipe Box, but there are a number of similar recipes out there.
Cream Cheese Mints
Ingredients
- 8 oz. cream cheese, softened
- 4½ cups powdered sugar
- ½ to 1 tsp. peppermint extract
- food coloring of your choice
Directions
- In a stand mixer, or a bowl using a hand mixer, combine the softened cream cheese and sugar. Mix on low until blended. Increase speed and mix until well combined.
- Add extract and mix.
- Place into a piping bag with a star tip. Pipe onto a parchment lined cookie sheet.
- Allow them all to stand for an hour to stiffen up.
- Place in the freezer to harden.
Notes
You can also place the mixture into a ziploc bag and cut of the corner to squeeze out onto wax paper. Store in an air tight container.
There's an alternate recipe over at the Tater Tots and Jello website where you can also download these nifty gift tags:
