mamajune 2 years, 3 months ago said: Candy Cane Cookies INGREDIENTS: 2 cup butter 1 1/2 cup sugar 4 single egg yolks 2 teaspoon vanilla 4 1/2 cup unbleached flour 1/2 teaspoon salt 3 tablespoon peppermint candy 1 red food colouring DIRECTIONS: Cream together butter and sugar. Add egg yolks and vanilla and mix well. Sift flour and salt together and beat into butter mixture until well mixed. When ready, divide dough in half. To one half, add 1/2 ts. red food colouring. Using about a tablespoon of dough, roll a 4" strip of each colour (no fatter than a pencil). Place the two coloured rolls side-by-side and press lightly together. Gently twist like a rope and place on an ungreased cookie sheet 1" apart. Curve the top like a candy cane and bake in a pre-heated oven at 350 F. for about 15 minutes; do not brown. Sprinkle with crushed peppermint candy before cool. Makes 20-30 medium cookies. Secondary Note: After trial and error, I found that it is easier to take each tablespoon of cookie dough and roll in hands to form rough cylinder. Then put on flat surface vertically. Using fingers and palm in same direction, gently roll left and right until the size of a pencil. (the dough, that is):) Pick a time to do these cookies when you're feeling creative and have patience. It's fun and they are yummy! The end product is worth the trouble.
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mamajune 2 years, 3 months ago said:
Candy Cane Cookies
INGREDIENTS:
2 cup butter
1 1/2 cup sugar
4 single egg yolks
2 teaspoon vanilla
4 1/2 cup unbleached flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
3 tablespoon peppermint candy
1 red food colouring
DIRECTIONS:
Cream together butter and sugar. Add egg yolks and vanilla and mix well.
Sift flour and salt together and beat into butter mixture until well mixed.
When ready, divide dough in half. To one half, add 1/2 ts. red food
colouring. Using about a tablespoon of dough, roll a 4" strip of each
colour (no fatter than a pencil). Place the two coloured rolls side-by-side
and press lightly together. Gently twist like a rope and place on an
ungreased cookie sheet 1" apart. Curve the top like a candy cane and
bake in a pre-heated oven at 350 F. for about 15 minutes; do not brown.
Sprinkle with crushed peppermint candy before cool.
Makes 20-30 medium cookies.
Secondary Note: After trial and error, I found that it is easier to take each
tablespoon of cookie dough and roll in hands to form rough cylinder.
Then put on flat surface vertically. Using fingers and palm in same
direction, gently roll left and right until the size of a pencil.
(the dough, that is):) Pick a time to do these cookies when you're feeling
creative and have patience. It's fun and they are yummy!
The end product is worth the trouble.