Use this old-fashioned butter mints recipe to make your own delicious mints for weddings, showers or parties! Beautiful pastel colors and deliciously minty!
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Keyword butter mints, peppermints, soft mints
Prep Time 15 minutesminutes
Total Time 15 minutesminutes
Servings 12portions
Calories 178kcal
Equipment
mixing bowl
electric mixer
Pizza Cutter
cutting board
measuring cups and spoons
Ingredients
1/4cupbuttersoftened
3 1/4cupspowdered sugar
1/3cupsweetened condensed milk
1/2teaspoonextractpeppermint, cinnamon, lemon, etc.
1/2teaspoonvanilla
food coloringvariety 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 1/4 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.
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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.