A soft, creamy cinnamon cream cheese candy that requires no cooking. This would be a fun, easy candy to make with kids.
Recently I pinned some adorable little white and yellow cream cheese candies from Erin’s Food Files. It’s a simple recipe that has been blogged about many times. The recipe is even in the recipe booklet that accompanied the cinnamon oil I bought to flavor the mints.
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They were a fun, easy way to start off 12 Weeks of Christmas Treats hosted by Brenda, Meal Planning Magic. I’ve been doing 12 Weeks of Christmas Cookies for the past three years, but this year they’ve changed it up to include all Christmas Treats. So although it’s early for Christmas, I’m already pinning treat ideas and dreaming up fun new cookies for the holidays.
I like the cinnamon mints with the little swirl, so I decided to make a cinnamon swirl version of these candies. To make the swirl I rolled the dough into ropes and twisted the ropes together. I used the small end of a melon baller to help portion and shape the dough.
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Cinnamon Swirl Cream Cheese Mints
Ingredients
- 1 3 oz package cream cheese softened
- 3 cups powdered confectioners sugar
- 4 -6 drops of cinnamon oil
- 4 -6 drops red food coloring I used red gel
- granulated sugar
Instructions
- In a mixing bowl, mix together cream cheese and powdered sugar with a hand mixer on low speed until smooth. You want a pie dough consistency. Add cinnamon oil and mix well.
- Divide the dough in half. Add red food coloring to one half to achieve the desired color. Divide each color into thirds.
- On a powdered sugar coated surface (I used a Silpat) roll one third of the white dough into a rope and one third of the pink dough into a rope. Twist the ropes around each other.
- Shape dough into ½ inch balls (I used the small end of a melon baller to portion out the dough) and roll in granulated sugar.
- Place on baking sheets, flatten with a fork, and allow to stand 1 hour to harden. Store in airtight containers in refrigerator.
Ashley @ Kitchen Meets Girl
These are gorgeous, Barbara. I LOVE cream cheese mints, though I’ve never made them with cinnamon before–what a wonderful idea. Every time I think about making cream cheese mints, I remember the last time I made them–for a girlfriend’s wedding. We ate so much of the dough as we went along that we nearly made ourselves sick. 🙂 And I still love ’em!
Paula @ Vintage Kitchen
These little mints are so cute! I love, love the idea of this recipe.
Claire @ Claire K Creations
I remember being so envious of your 12 weeks of cookies last year and now it’s started all over again. These look absolutely delicious. I might just have to make them to take my dad this weekend. He loooves mints.
Emily
You are way too fancy for me! But these mints are adorable. Pinning them ASAP (and now I have to create a Christmas board).
Alison @ Ingredients, Inc
oh wow! LOVING THESE
Cara
I have always wanted to make cream cheese mint and never have! I love your take on them!
Lora
Never heard of cream cheese mints. After seing these. So glad I’m informed. they look and sound wonderful. A little sparkle of Christmas magic.
Louanne
These are darling! I saw your comment about cream cheese icing – well, I am definitely going to give these a whirl! Love cream cheese icing!
Sanchez James R
lovely idea to attract small kids and the recipe for preparation Cream Cheese Mints are wonderful, thanks guys for sharing this yummy recipe my daughter loved it very much.
Deborah
I LOVE cream cheese mints! I don’t think I’ve ever done cinnamon before, though – just peppermint. I need add these to my holiday must makes!
Jaida @ Sweet Beginnings
I have 9-year-old nieces and I think this would be a great project to do with them. They probably wouldn’t make it out of the house though, because we’d eat them all!
Melissa
We always made cream cheese mints for Christmas growing up. Love the idea of cinnamon!
Kelly @ adventureofalife
My sister and I used to make these when we were teenagers for all our “formal” occasions. They were our epitome of class! The cinnamon oil and two-tone coloring are fantastic ideas! Maybe it’s time I bring this tradition back for the next generation!
Pam @ The Meltaways
These look amazing! I wanted to try more candies this year so these would be perfect!
Lorraine @ Not Quite Nigella
Oooh these look so simple mum! I really want to make these. I think they’re perfect for Christmas presents! 😀 xxx
Katrina @ Warm Vanilla Sugar
These look lovely! Great idea!
Lisa
Wow..these look incredible. I love to carry candy in my purse and I’d be pretty popular with these lol Mint plus cinnamon = the ultimate breath refresher, not to mention pretty and undoubtedly delicious! BTW..your post poofed on me in Triberr, so I shared from here.
Maureen | Orgasmic Chef
I’ve never eaten a cream cheese mint? How has my life been normal? I’m going to try these this weekend. 🙂
Barbara
I’d never tried them before either. If you like a cream cheese icing, you’ll like these.
Rosa
A great treat! So pretty.
Cheers,
Rosa
Laura Rees
I LOVE cream cheese mints! But I usually do mine peppermint. This is a great twist.