Use this old-fashioned butter mints recipe to make your own delicious mints for weddings, showers or parties! Beautiful pastel colors and deliciously minty!
My kids and I LOVE old-fashioned butter mints so when I found this butter mints recipe for making them from scratch (and it’s a no-bake recipe so it doesn’t heat up the kitchen!) we decided to try them out!
I remember my grandparents putting butter mints out for my aunt’s wedding when I was a child. She had two receptions, and I think most of my memories revolve around playing with my cousins and eating the butter mints and mixed nuts off of the tables, haha! With 7 daughters, they went through a lot of butter mints for all of those wedding receptions.
My kids ate these homemade butter mints right up. They said they were just right in the minty flavored department. They had fun choosing what colors to make them and a few are swirled with 2 colors.
Just don’t leave butter mints out, especially on a warm day. There aren’t any preservatives in them, they are slightly softer than their store-bought counterparts, and the butter will make them soften and stick together. We put them in the refrigerator and they were perfect.
I definitely foresee making this butter mints recipe many times!
Lavender and light blue mixed in would be great for an Easter variety. Since we are staying next door to my Grandmother, I just had to go over and borrowed her little hen candy dish for the photos. I’ve always loved this dish of hers. And then I carefully put it back on the shelf, and put the butter mint candies in a different container so that my kids could have their way with them. Ha! Total photo opp, but don’t they just look at home in that little glass hen?
Recipe Courtesy of Averie Cooks (click for recipe)
Here’s another yummy candy recipe you might want to try:
So glad that you made these. I have been wanting to try the recipe, but wasn’t sure how well they’d come out. Yippee…I’ll have to make these soon.
Life. Changing. I had NO idea you could make butter mints and I have a good working knowledge of candy! I’m so pleased that you shared this!
My hubby really loves mints. Whenever we find a good mint at a restaurant we always sneak a huge handful. I’ll have to try these for sure. I’d love it if you shared this at my link party. http://acraftycook.blogspot.com/2012/08/1-month-of-fun-august-link-party.html
Yummy these look great.. What a great blog it makes me hungry lol check out my food blog if you get a min and have not done it already..
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Mmmmmm. I am excited to try these! 😀
Melissa http://www.mywatermelonmoon.com, I am (now) a follower and I would appreciate you following along with me too! Have a fabulous day!
Yummy! My recipe for mints is very similar but I use cream cheese. I would love for you link this up at my first LINK PARTY!
http://www.thecreativeorchard.blogspot.com/2012/08/tutorial-link-party.html
Yum! I have always loved eating these when they are served at parties but I never learned to make them myself. Can’t wait to try this recipe. Thanks!
I could seriously eat buttermints by the pound! What a great recipe! We’d love for you to share this at our party! http://housewivesofriverton.blogspot.com/2012/09/riverton-housewives-round-up-31.html
WOW! These look amazing! I have to try them. I wonder if you could use a piping bag with a large tip, like a star tip, and make a cool shape…
Aaaaaw…I remember these from when I was little. My grandma used to have these on her table whenever we went to visit her. I will have to give these a try. Thanks for sharing the recipe!
Oh. my. gosh. I love those mints. I will HAVE to make some. I am pinning this immediately! Thanks for sharing!
Laura @ The Experimental Home
I realized I never properly thanked you for linking to my recipe and trying it. I appreciate both! 🙂
You’re welcome and thank you for the recipe! I hope it has brought you lots of great traffic!
hi can you share the recipe of butter mint? It looks so good to eat … nice to be served to my friends.
Hi Rhon! I shared a link at the bottom of the post to the website where the recipe was from, but it looks like it isn’t working right now 🙁 A server error. Hopefully it is fixed soon, but otherwise I’d suggest looking on pinterest. Unfortunately I did not write the recipe down. I just used her website as a source. I’m so sorry!
https://www.averiecooks.com/2012/06/old-fashioned-butter-mints.html/print
Thank you! I’ve updated the link. Looks as though the url changed since I originally posted the recipe!
Those look great…. I have never made them, but need to. 🙂
I have always loved butter mints since I was a kid and my mom used to make them for weddings. Great recipe. Thanks for sharing at #HomeMattersParty
These looks so yummy!Thank you for sharing on Merry Monday! Have a great week!
Kim
My mom used to have butter mints every time we had company over for dinner! These look delicious!
These butter mints caught my eye since I have always loved them. When I clicked for the recipe, it said that that link was no longer available. I was dissapointed. Maybe I will try back again and see if I can get it. I found you at Tasty Tuesdays link party.
Hi! The website no longer exists, I guess. Here is a link to a saved copy of the recipe. Hope that helps! https://www.averiecooks.com/2012/06/old-fashioned-butter-mints.html/print
I just love Butter Mints and a perfect mint for the June celebrations! Your post is awesome and thanks so much for sharing it with us at Full Plate Thursday. Hope you are having a great day and come back to see us real soon!
Miz Helen