Maple Leaf Cream Cheese Mints

What do you do when you have a leaf shaped mint mold?  Make cream cheese mints, right?  I've got the recipe.

Maple Leaf Cream Cheese Mints

 

Truthfully, I have no idea why I ever bought the leaf shaped mold in the first place... I'm sure I had a good reason.

Because fall is in the air and my sister loves cream cheese mints, I decided this would be the route to take.  Like, make cream cheese mints for my sister.

What's better than raking leaves?  Making leaves!

So with a little food color, I got started.

After they were all made, I wondered if I should have flavored them with maple flavoring instead of mint?  You know they are maple leaves.

Hmmm, I wonder how that would have tasted.  I may never know.

Mix the cream cheese mint mixture with gold food color.

Shape into a small ball and roll in sugar.

Press into the mint mold, turn the mold over and release.

Make one or as many colors as you like.  Looks like I liked four colors.  

Cream Cheese Mints

by The Partiologist

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Ingredients

• 8 oz. cream cheese, room temperature
• 2 lbs. powdered sugar
• 2 drops mint flavored oil
• Choice of food coloring
• Sugar for dipping

Instructions

Mix the cream cheese with the powdered sugar until completely blended.

Divide the dough into portions for coloring.

Add food color, one drop at a time, mixing until desired color.

Roll into small balls, coat in sugar.

Press in mold and remove.

Have a Wonder-Fall Day!