Sweet, soft, and melt-in-your-mouth Valentine’s Day Cream Cheese Patties. This easy no-bake candy recipe is made with cream cheese, powdered sugar, and festive pink and red colors. Perfect for Valentine’s Day dessert tables, homemade gifts, and holiday parties!
Valentine’s Day Cream Cheese Patties are a classic, old-fashioned candy that’s soft, creamy, and irresistibly sweet.
These melt-in-your-mouth treats are made with simple pantry ingredients and require no baking at all.
Their smooth texture and delicate flavor make them perfect for Valentine’s Day parties, gifts, or dessert tables. You can easily customize them with different extracts and festive pink or red colors. They’re quick to prepare, beginner-friendly, and ideal for making ahead of time. Cream cheese patties pair beautifully with coffee, tea, or hot chocolate. This nostalgic candy is guaranteed to impress with minimal effort.
Why You’ll Love These Cream Cheese Mints
You’ll love these cream cheese mints because they’re creamy, sweet, and incredibly easy to make. They require no oven, no special tools, and come together in minutes. Their smooth texture and customizable flavors make them perfect for holidays and special occasions.
What Are Cream Cheese Candies?
Cream cheese candies are soft, fondant-style sweets made with cream cheese, powdered sugar, and flavoring. They’re often shaped into small patties or molded candies and lightly dried for a smooth finish. These candies are a popular old-fashioned treat, especially for holidays like Valentine’s Day and weddings.
Variation Ideas for Old-Fashioned Cream Cheese Mints
Try different flavors like vanilla, lemon, raspberry, or almond extract.
Easter: Shape them into round or oval “eggs” using vanilla or banana flavor. Use pastel pink, purple, blue, and yellow.
Christmas: Classic red, green, and white are perfect with peppermint flavor. Tiny trees or ornaments are easy to shape — and so cute.
Baby Shower: Try almond or maple extract. For a gender reveal, make pink and blue cream cheese candies.
Halloween: Dark purple, black, orange, and green work great. Make pumpkins, cauldrons, or small discs. Any flavor works well, but lemon or strawberry adds a fun fruity twist.
Recipe Tips
Make sure the cream cheese is fully softened to avoid lumps. Add powdered sugar gradually to control the dough consistency. If the mixture feels sticky, chill it briefly before shaping.
Storage
Store cream cheese patties in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to two weeks. They can also be frozen for up to three months and thawed at room temperature before serving. Did you make these Valentine’s Day Cream Cheese Patties?
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- 4 ounces cream cheese softened to room temperature
- 1 tablespoon butter softened
- 4 cups powdered sugar
- 1 tsp your choice of extract or candy flavoring 1 to 2 tsp, mint or strawberry
- Pink and red gel food coloring
- In a large mixing bowl, add cream cheese, butter, mint or strawberry extract and powdered sugar
- Use an electric hand or stand mixer to blend for 3-4 minutes. It will be very crumbly.
- Put away the mixture and continue mixing by hand, kneading the mixture and forming it into a round ball.
- Using a sharp knife, cut the ball into 3 equal parts. Place each portion into a small mixing bowl
- Add one color of food coloring to each bowl, except for one which will remain white.
- Add 3-4 dots of food coloring gel to each.
- Fold in the food coloring, mixing by hand or with a fork. Mix until the color is solid and fully blended.
- Using a rolling pin roll out each ball of candy to about ¼-½ inch thick.
- Use a fork to drag lines down the rolled out dough.
- Then use a tiny heart cookie cutter to cut out your shapes and set on a parchment lined tray.
- Let candies stand, uncovered, at room temperature for 1 day.
- Store in an airtight container.
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