Cream cheese mint party favors

Gosh it's so time consuming planning a one year old's birthday party! My husband and I made cream cheese mints for party favors. We were trying to come up with a party favor that would be inexpensive yet thoughtful, and I think we nailed it with these mints. However, like I said, it was a bit time consuming! We waited until we put our son to sleep for the evening and then spent until about 10pm creating these delightful treats!

We used this quick and easy recipe:

Cream cheese mints

3 oz cream cheese

1 1/2 c. powdered sugar 

1/4 t. peppermint extract

Soften cream cheese. In a medium bowl, mix the cream cheese with peppermint oil. Add in the food coloring of your choice and mix well. Next add powdered sugar. Mix with a hand mixer. Spoon mixture into a cake decorating bag and use whatever metal tip you would like! We used the flower-looking tip for our mints. 

*If it is too difficult to push the mixture through the tip, either use a bigger tip, or remove the mixture from the bag and add more cream cheese to the mixture.

We reused baby food jars and put our mints in them to use as party favors for our guests.

I wanted the mints to be a more royal blue instead of a sky blue, but I guess royal blue mints might not look as tasty, so the sky blue worked perfectly!

I then tied burlap over the top of the jars and tied on a favor tag. 

I used the same tags for the favors as I used for the invitations to tie in the theme. 

My iPad doesn't always take the clearest pictures unfortunately :(

I put a chalkboard label on the front of each jar which added that extra touch. Can't wait to give them out at my son's birthday party!