Buttermints recipe?

[GingerPye]

So, I'm gearing up to get DD's high school graduation party planned.  I would like to try to make buttermints --- anyone have a foolproof recipe?  I have found a few recipes online ---  a lot of them have cream or condensed milk or cream cheese in them, etc. 

We have milk, egg, PN and TN allergies.

[GoingNuts]

I've never heard of them!

[GingerPye]

oooh, maybe it is a Midwestern thing?  I have great memories of snatching a handful out of Grandma's candy dish.    They are usually served at weddings and parties and such.

[becca]

I only know of using cream cheese, and have never made them. 

[becca]

Here is a recipe.  Maybe try swapping out to your safe butter substitute and safe milk, but I do think the butter and cream itmes lend the flavor and consistency to them.  But easy enough to try ahead fo time to see if it works.

http://www.splendidtable.org/recipes/buttermints

[Macabre]

Pooh I love butter mints--have since I was a kid. They say "special occasion" to me. Great idea.

[nameless]

I've never heard of them!

yes you have!  I think they are named/nicknamed something else in the northeast though...



Don't they look familiar? Weddings..."after dinner mints" in some restaurants

[GoingNuts]

Yup, you're right. Yummy!

[nameless]

Yup, you're right. Yummy!

what's another name for them? I never remember them being called buttermints??

[nameless]

Ah - I think I knew them as "Pastels" or "Pastel mints" not to be confused with "Pastilles"

??

[becca]

Yeah, pastel mints. 

http://www.harrisburgstore.com/richardson-pastel-mints-4lbs-bag/?gclid=CIG5wsvcrb0CFe1QOgodNRQARg

[GingerPye]

Thanks for that recipe, becca.  I had found a few that might work but had not found that one.  I'll try to make some for Easter and make sure that they are good!   

[PurpleCat]

You could make those and sell them to us!!!!!      


I love those!  My grandmother had either those which I loved or the other kind filled with a jelly that I hated.

[krasota]

You could also search for vegan butttermint recipes.  Butter/margarine, mint oil or vanilla, and confectioner's sugar.  You just add enough milk to make them pliable, so any sub should work.  I'm sure my mom always used margarine.  Some butter subs are salty--experiment.

[Macabre]

One used coconut oil but encountered an issue and then suggested how to resolve it.