Fun together with festive Candy Cane Cookies 2 colors of almond saccharide cookie dough twisted together, sprinkled alongside crushed candy canes together with sugar. They're a treasured menage unit of measurement Christmas tradition, for sure!
I promise y'all had a wonderful Thanksgiving! I certain did ... spent nice, relaxing fourth dimension alongside my parents together with Mark's Mom ... together with didn't fifty-fifty THINK near going out for 'Black Friday' shopping. Nope. No way. No how.
Shopping the solar daytime after Christmas? Yup ... it's a tradition for Mom together with me. 'Black Friday?' ... non thus much.
Mom together with I stayed domicile together with made these candy cane cookies instead ... our picayune 'Black Friday' project!
We used to brand these candy cane cookies every twelvemonth at Christmastime when I was growing up. It was a corking in-the-kitchen menage unit of measurement project, though Mom says my blood brother together with I used to surrender after assembling near 2 cookies ... leaving her to produce most of the work. Hmmmmm ... I don't look to think that.
Two colors of almond saccharide cookie dough twisted together, sprinkled alongside crushed candy canes together with sugar. They're a treasured menage unit of measurement Christmas tradition, for sure!
Not at all sayin' that that happened ... but if it did ... it may accept been ... only may accept been ... that Mom's candy cane cookies were ever thus much prettier than ours. And isn't it squeamish to accept an entire batch of pretty candy canes? Apparently nosotros may accept persuasion that.
We hadn't made these candy cane cookies together since I was inwards high schoolhouse ... which, I abhor to say, was near 25 years ago.
So, when Mom together with I decided to brand them this weekend, the examination was on!
Had I improved? Could I at nowadays brand candy canes equally pretty equally Mom's??
Well, yes! I'm pleased to study that my candy cane cookie-making skills accept greatly improved! I gauge some things only come upward alongside age.
We had a squeamish afternoon together getting our Christmas baking started. And I must say, nosotros had totally forgotten how totally tasty these cookies are! Almond extract gives them a genuinely wonderful flavour that goes surprisingly fabulously alongside the peppermint sprinkle on top.
So non solely are these candy cane cookies pretty to await at, they're darn tasty too. Ahhhhh, making them brought dorsum corking memories.
And here's how y'all tin sack brand your really own.
Almond extract gives them a genuinely wonderful flavour that goes surprisingly fabulously alongside the peppermint sprinkle on top.
Start past times getting the peppermint sprinkle topping together.
Crush some candy canes or peppermint candies. I institute using mini candy canes was quite handy ... y'all tin sack trounce them correct inwards their picayune private packets together with thus only cutting opened upward the transcend together with pour the crushed pieces into a bowl.
Easy together with neat. Love that.
Mix the crushed candy canes alongside granulated sugar, together with fix this aside for later.
Mix upward some yummy dough ... together with split upward it into 2 equal portions. Add carmine nutrient coloring to i subdivision ...
... together with mix it upward actually well.
Now you've got carmine dough together with white dough ... only perfect for making cute picayune candy canes.
Take near a 1" ball of dough of each color ...
... together with work the palm of your manus to ringlet it out into near a 4"-long rope.
When y'all accept a rope of each color, lay them side-by-side together with gently press them together a bit.
Then twist them together ...
... thus they await near similar this. Very gently ringlet the twisted dough alongside the palm of your manus to 'smooth' the twists out a tiny bit.
Place your twist on an ungreased cookie canvas together with crimp the transcend to await similar a candy cane shape.
See? Your candy cane cookies should await near similar this ...
Pop them inwards the oven for a bit, together with when they come upward out right away sprinkle each cookie alongside peppermint sprinkle topping. We highly recommend placing wax newspaper ... or something similar ... nether the cooling rack to grab the spill-over sprinkle.
The topping volition kind of melt onto the cookies, giving them a yummy pepperminty crunch that pairs wonderfully alongside the almond-flavored dough.
Let these beauties cool, together with enjoy.
Thanks for an afternoon of corking memories, Mom! I'm thus glad I tin sack at nowadays brand Candy Cane Cookies equally pretty equally yours.
Thank y'all for stopping past times . We'd honey to accept y'all dorsum soon!
Candy Cane Cookies
Ingredients Source: My Mom (and I accept no persuasion where she got the recipe ...)
- 1/2 c. shortening {such equally Crisco}
- 1/2 c. unsalted butter
- 1 c. confectioners' sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 1/2 tsp. almond extract
- 1 tsp. vanilla extract
- 2 1/2 c. all-purpose flour
- 3/4 tsp. salt
- 1/2 tsp. red nutrient coloring
- 1/2 c. crushed peppermint candy or candy canes (about xx mini candy canes or 8 regular-sized)
- 1/2 c. granulated sugar
- For the Peppermint Sprinkle Topping: Combine crushed candy canes together with granulated sugar. Set aside.
- For the Cookies: Mix shortening, butter, together with confectioners' saccharide until good combined. Add egg, almond extract, together with vanilla extract; combine well. Mix inwards flour together with salt.
- Divide dough into 2 equal portions. Place i subdivision inwards a bowl. Mix carmine nutrient coloring into the remaining portion.
- Take near a 1" ball of each color of dough together with ringlet each into a 4" strip. Lay the strips side-by-side together with thus twist together. Place on an ungreased cookie canvas together with crimp the transcend to brand the strips await similar a candy cane shape.
- Repeat alongside remaining dough.
- Bake at 375 degrees for six - nine minutes, until cookies are fix together with only barely starting fourth dimension to larn a fleck of golden brownish on the bottom.
- Place wax newspaper nether a cooling rank. Carefully take away hot cookies from the pan together with house on the cooling rack. Immediately, piece cookies are even thus hot, sprinkle generously alongside Peppermint Sprinkle Topping. Let cool on rack.
Makes near 2 dozen cookies.
NOTES:
- There genuinely is no leavener inwards this recipe ... that's non a typo.
- DO NOT chill the dough. It's needs to survive really soft together with pliable to survive able to ringlet together with cast it into candy canes.
- It's of import to sprinkle the Peppermint Sprinkle Topping on the cookies right away upon taking them out of the oven thus it volition stick together with kind of 'melt' onto the cookies. If the cookies accept cooled also much, it volition only autumn off.
- These tin sack survive made ahead together with frozen. A unmarried layer plant best ... or really gently house wax newspaper betwixt layers.
Enjoy!
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