Cream Cheese Peppermints


I’ll admit it, cream cheese and peppermint flavor doesn’t seem like the most likely combination. In fact, it seems like it would borderline on strange. The finished product of this recipe is anything but strange. Delicious is more like it.

Cream Cheese Peppermints

Cream Cheese Peppermints

3 oz light cream cheese
1/3 teaspoon peppermint extract
2-3 drops green food coloring (or color of your choice)
4 1/4 - 4 1/2 cups powdered sugar
granulated sugar

Put cream cheese, peppermint extract and food coloring in bowl of mixer. Beat on low-medium about 30 seconds, or until smooth. Continuing on low-medium gradually add powdered sugar and mix about 2 minutes or until mixture becomes stiff.

To make mints: Shape mixture into 3/4 inch balls, using about 1 tsp for each ball. Roll in granulated sugar. Place on wax paper covered with granulated sugar, flatten ball slightly with thumb to for about 1/4 inch thick patties. Press back of fork lightly on patties to form ridges if desired.

Store mints, tightly covered in refrigerator. Can also be frozen.

Yields: approximately 7 dozen mints



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Faith Kramer
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May 22, 2006 at 12:29 pm

What a great recipe to make with kids. Next time my future pastry chef doesn’t know what to do with himself, I’m giving him this recipe.

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Joanna Miller
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May 23, 2006 at 9:50 am

I was just reminiscing about these with my sister the other day. For my 5th birthday, my parents organized a “ladies tea party” and we all dressed up in fancy dresses (and plenty of blue eyeshadow) and drank tea out of my grandma’s China cups and ate sanwiches with the crust cut off AND had these VERY cream cheese mints, which my mom had made in several pastel colors. And I helped! I can still taste them now - 30 years later!

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Jaay Dunlap
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May 23, 2006 at 9:29 pm

Joanna, what a great story! Glad these mints have brought back such vivid memories for someone.

And Faith, definitely a great recipe for when the kids are helping. Let me know how you & the future pastry chef like em when he tries out the recipe.