Our Family Food Favorites: Cream Cheese Mints

Jan 27, 2022

Cream Cheese Mints

These are the mints that Mom always made for wedding receptions and parties. There was always a container of them in the freezer waiting to be eaten!

Cream Cheese Mints

8 oz. cream cheese, softened

1 t. peppermint extract

2 lbs. powdered sugar (7 1/2- 8 cups)

Beat cream cheese and flavoring on low until smooth. Add 6 cups powdered sugar. Mix well. Add more powdered sugar until about the consistency of play dough. Pinch off a ball the size of a marble. Roll in granulated sugar and press into a candy mold.

"Saying Grace" by Norman Rockwell

This painting was created for the cover of The Saturday Evening Post’s 1951 Thanksgiving issue. It portrays a woman and a young boy saying grace in a crowded restaurant while the people around them glance in their direction. Rockwell was inspired to create this artwork by a reader of the magazine who saw a Mennonite family praying in a restaurant.

In 1955, the readers of The Saturday Evening Post voted Saying Grace as their favorite ever cover. The painting was sold for $46 million in an auction at Sotheby’s in December 2013. At that time, it set the record for the most expensive American painting ever sold at auction. The $46 million paid for Saying Grace remains the highest known price paid for a Norman Rockwell artwork.