1 (3 oz.) pkg. cream cheese
3 1/2 c. confectioners' sugar
1/2 tsp. mint flavoring
Few drops of food coloring

Combine all ingredients except food coloring in a medium bowl. Beat with electric mixer until smooth and creamy. (If the dough is too stiff to manipulate easily, add a teaspoon or two of water and beat again.)

Add food coloring. Mix well. Scrape dough from beaters. Form all dough into a ball.

Knead ball in the air with palms of buttered hands until ball is smooth and round. (Do not use fingers to knead and do not place on counter, board, etc.)

Place ball of dough onto a piece of wax paper. Butter hands and pat or roll out dough to 1/2 inch thickness. Use a small cutter, a doughnut-hole cutter works great, to cut out desired shapes. (Cut out shapes, but leave them on the wax paper. When dough is used up, lift dough scraps from shapes, leaving cut mints on wax paper to dry. Reroll dough scraps, flatten out on another piece of wax paper, and cut away!)

Allow mints to dry. This may take up to 12 hours, depending on the room temperature and humidity. Mints may be frozen. Makes about 75 doughnut-hole size mints.