Wedding Mint Recipe

Submitted by Ruth on Tue, 09/11/2007 - 05:08

At our ranch we live 7 miles from a Hutterite Colony. Over the last few years I've been buying all my produce, chickens and eggs from them. In the process I've become very good friends with them all. They are such kind hearted and generous people and wonderful cooks!

There has been some recent excitement there lately. A couple is getting married and it's the first wedding on the colony in 10 years. Well when there's a wedding there's a celebration! A beautiful wedding cake was made for the lucky couple by a friend from another colony and it was beautiful. Since they new I loved to decorate large and tiny cakes I was invited to come and help decorate 48 cakes. They were 9" round double layer cakes. They were made for a special wedding treat for everyone in the colony. Every one got about 1/3 of a cake. I had about 10 women helping me with them. They did all the hard work of baking all of the cakes in advance and then I had the fun part of teaching them how to make roses and decorate the edges. It was a wonderful day full of fun.

For a bit of a treat I brought all my mint making supplies and we made 4 huge trays of wedding mints. They are very easy and delicious and you might like to try them.

Wedding Mint Recipe:

-1 package of cream cheese. (Low fat or regular works fine)
-2 packages of powder sugar
-candy flavoring (Mint, raspberry, strawberry ect. Whatever flavors you love. They can be found at Michael's,any candy or cake shop)
-cake decorating colors
-tiny rubber mint molds (found at cake and candy shops)
-1/2 cup granulated sugar

You take a piece of wax paper and put your cream cheese on it. Then dump about 1/2 your bag of powder sugar on top. Keeping it within the confines of the wax paper (makes less of a mess). Mix it all with your hands. Mix and mix and mix until you can feel that you need more powder sugar. Mix enough powder sugar in until it is of a stiff consistency. But not too stiff. You want it stiff enough so that when you work with it in the molds it won't lose it's shape. When it seems to have to correct consistency then add your flavor to taste and color to your liking. Mint works great with green. You then take a small ball of mint mixture in your hand and roll it around in the granulated sugar. Then you press it into the rubber mold. Then just flip it over and press it out of the mold. The key is to always roll it in sugar before going into the mold and then it won't stick. Now you have a completed mint ready to eat! Just lay them on a tray as we did or put them in a tin or plastic container, putting wax paper in between the layers. Then just freeze them until you eat them. The point is to get a bunch of friends together and have a lot of fun! The more the merrier.

I hope you enjoy all the fun pictures of our cake decorating and mint making fest!

Frosting 48 cakes
The beginning of our day decorating cakes