Old-Fashioned Butter Mints Recipe (Video)

December 20, 2020 By Brandy 24 Comments

Use this old-fashioned butter mints recipe to make your own delicious mints for weddings, showers or parties! Beautiful pastel colors and deliciously minty!

I love making candy. Be sure to try our English toffee recipe as well as our homemade tootsie rolls! This post was originally shared in 2012 and now includes a step by step video.

What Are Butter Mints?

Butter mints are often served at weddings and parties. They come in a variety of colors and are hard in texture until you pop them in your mouth. Then they become soft and melt in your mouth.

My kids and I LOVE old-fashioned butter mints. 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. 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.

glass candy dish with colored butter mint candies

Flavoring Butter Mints

I use peppermint extract. I also have peppermint flavoring oils (NOT to be confused with essential oil). The flavoring oils are more potent and require less, but the flavor is very similar.

You can flavor these using any flavor of extract you like, but peppermint is my favorite.

Storing Mints

There aren't any preservatives in homemade butter mints and they are slightly softer than their store-bought counterparts. The butter will make them soften and stick together so it is best to store them in the refrigerator after drying out.

Old-Fashioned Butter Mints Recipe

recipe adapted from Averie Cooks

Old Fashioned Butter Mints

Use this old-fashioned butter mints recipe to make your own delicious mints for weddings, showers or parties! Beautiful pastel colors and deliciously minty!

4.65 from 28 votes

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Prep Time: 15

Total Time: 15

Servings: portions

Calories: 178kcal

Equipment

mixing bowl
electric mixer
Pizza Cutter
cutting board
measuring cups and spoons

Ingredients

¼ cup butter softened
3 ¼ cups powdered sugar
⅓ cup sweetened condensed milk
½ teaspoon extract peppermint, cinnamon, lemon, etc.
½ teaspoon vanilla
food coloring variety of colors

Instructions

Beat butter using electric mixer until smooth, 30-45 seconds.
Add powdered sugar, milk, peppermint extract (or any other kind of extract) and vanilla, and mix until a dough forms. Add an additional ¼ cup of powdered sugar if the dough is too sticky.
Divide dough into 3 or 4 portions for coloring. Add a few drops of coloring and knead into dough.
Tip: If you have a Kitchenaid mixer you can use the paddle attachment to color the dough or use gloves to color the dough by hand to save your fingers from staining.
Pinch off a 2" ball of colored dough and roll out into long ropes. Cut each rope into tiny bite sized pieces using a pizza cutter on a cutting board.
Let candy dry on baking sheet for 24 hours.

Notes

Tthe colored dough will look swirly, and not be solid in color. That's normal.

Finished mints can be refrigerated for several weeks or in the freezer for up to 2 months.

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