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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!
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Keyword butter mints, peppermints, soft mints
Prep Time 15 minutes
Total Time 15 minutes
Servings 12 portions
Calories 178kcal

Equipment

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

Ingredients

  • 1/4 cup butter softened
  • 3 1/4 cups powdered sugar
  • 1/3 cup sweetened condensed milk
  • 1/2 teaspoon extract peppermint, cinnamon, lemon, etc.
  • 1/2 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 1/4 cup of powdered sugar if the dough is too sticky.
    ball of butter mint dough on cutting board
  • 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.
    4 balls of colored butter mint dough
  • 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.
    rows of butter mint dough rolled out and cut with a pizza cutter
  • Let candy dry on baking sheet for 24 hours.
    butter mints drying on baking sheet

Video

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.

Nutrition

Calories: 178kcal