Cream Cheese Candies

Total Time: 24 hrs Preparation Time: 24 hrs

Ingredients

• 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese (at room temperature)
• 1/2-1 teaspoon flavoring, as desired
• food coloring, as desired
• colored crystal sugar, as desired
• 6 3/4 cups icing sugar

Recipe

• 1 in a mixing bowl, beat cream cheese until soft.
• 2 add desired food coloring and flavoring.
• 3 gradually add icing sugar, mixing and kneading until mixture has a putty-like consistency.
• 4 if you want a firmer texture, just add more icing sugar.
• 5 roll mixture into balls the size of a marble.
• 6 dunk one side of ball in a small amount of sugar, granulated or the coloured crystal sugar used on xmas cookies; try to match the colour with the colour and flavour of the balls.
• 7 place ball, sugar side down, into cavity of a plastic candy mold, pressing from edge of mold to centre.
• 8 immediately unmold onto a waxed-paper lined tray.
• 9 to make chocolate candies, add 3 tsp cocoa and 1/2 tsp of pure vanilla extract.
• 10 let candies stand out in the open to harden for at least 24 hours to become firm, then place in freezer or refrigerator.