The BEST Cream Cheese Mints you’ll ever try! This incredibly easy recipe yields the most delicious, luscious, melt-in-your-mouth cream cheese mints around!
Ingredients
½ Cup Unsalted Butter (* room temperature)
3 oz. Regular Cream Cheese (*room temperature)
1½ Cups Confectioner’s Sugar
½ tsp Baking Powder
1 Egg (* room temperature)
½ tsp Pure Vanilla Extract
1¾ Cups All – Purpose Flour
Instructions
Heat oven to 375 degrees and line cookie sheets with parchment paper. Cream butter and cream cheese in a mixer bowl. Slowly add sugar and beat until fluffy. Beat in eggs, add flour, baking powder and vanilla.
Mix well. Chill dough for at least 1 hour. Shape into 1 inch balls, and dredge in superfine sugar or caster sugar. Place on lined cookie sheet, spacing them about 1½ inches apart.
One thing I don’t want you to skip, however, is slightly flattening the dough balls before baking. Bake for 8-10 minutes, or until the edges become slightly golden brown. They should look slightly under-baked (otherwise they won’t be chewy).
Cool for 1 minute on cookie sheet then transfer to wire racks to cool completely.
* If desired, sprinkle with powdered sugar once cooled, but do not overdo it because they are sweet enough.
You’ll get no less than 2 dozen cookies out of this dough. Cookies can be stored in an airtight container for 3-5 days.
