Butter Mints

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Handmade butter mints are a wonderful homemade treat crafted with real butter, offering a rich and creamy flavor. They are perfect for wedding mints, Christmas cookie trays, baby showers, and more. The sky is the limit with colors, flavorings, and shapes - shop them all at Country Kitchen SweetArt!
Butter Mints shaped like roses and leaves

Butter Mints Recipe

Although we love the unique combination of cinnamon and peppermint oil, feel free to use one or the other (or one of the over hundreds flavorings we have in stock!). Or create multiple flavors and colors for your event.

Ingredients

Instructions

1. In a large bowl, combine powdered sugar, melted butter, cold water, cinnamon oil, peppermint oil and butter flavor.
2. On a smooth dry surface, knead until mixture is smooth and the consistency of pie dough. If necessary, add more water, a drop at a time.
3. Color with food coloring.
4. Pinch a small piece and roll into a ball, then roll in granulated sugar.
rolling homemade buttermint dough into sugar
5. Push into mold & remove excess.
6. Turn mold over and let candy gently fall from mold.
the process of molding homemade buttermints using a plastic mold sold at Country Kitchen SweetArt
7. Let stand at room temperature 2 to 4 hours.
a tray of buttermints standing at room temperature to dry
Store in an airtight container up to 4 weeks.
Tip: Add sprinkles to the butter mint dough!
two christmas tree shaped buttermints with sprinkles
Recipe taken with permission from Autumn Carpenter's book, All About Candy Making. All rights reserved.

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