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Diamonds for Dessert: Candy Cane Cookies

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Candy Cane Cookies

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Ev ery y ear I alway s want to put som ething m inty in m y cookie boxes. Pepperm int just seem s to be a m ust during the holiday season what with seeing candy canes all ov er the place. I was tem pted to rem ake last y ear's m int chocolate chip truffles, but decided at the last m inute to try som ething new this y ear. I searched for candy cane cookie recipe and found these cute cookies. They 're super festiv e and just m inty enough, a wonderful addition to a set of holiday cookies.
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Candy Cane Cookies

adapted from A Good A ppeti te

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2 /3 cups butter, room tem perature 3 /4 cup sugar 1 egg 1 tbsp m ilk 2 cups flour 1 tsp baking powder 1 tbsp pepperm int extract pinch of salt red food coloring

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Mix the dry ingredients: flour, baking powder, and salt. Set aside for now. In a separate bowl, cream the butter and sugar together. Add the egg. Then m ix in the m ilk and pepperm int extract. Add the dry ingredients and m ix until a dough com es together. Split the dough in half. Wrap one half on plastic wrap and refrigerate. Add red food coloring to the other half of the dough and m ix until the coloring is ev enly distributed. Then wrap the red dough in plastic wrap and refrigerate. The dough should be chilled for about 3 hours.

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Preheat the ov en to 3 7 5F. To shape the cookies, first div ide the two doughs into 50 pieces each. Take one red piece of dough and one white piece of dough. Roll both dough pieces into 5 inch snakes. Twist the two snakes together. Pinch the two ends of the twist. Roll the whole twist a bit against the table so the two dough snakes stick better together. Then place the twist on a parchm ent lined baking sheet. Hook down the top of the twist to form a candy cane shape. Repeat with the rest of the dough. Bake the cookies for 8-1 0 m inutes, or until the bottom s begin browning. Leav e on the baking sheet a few m inutes, then m ov e to a wire rack to finish cooling. Makes 50 cookies.

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12 C O MME NT S: Hidden_Relic January 1 , 2 01 2 at 1 :1 7 AM OMG! Too cute! I m ay hav e to try doing a pink v ersion for Valentines day . :D Reply

Elizabet h January 1 , 2 01 2 at 9 :4 1 AM These are SO cute! Reply

Lisa January 2 , 2 01 2 at 1 2 :1 4 AM Those cookies are absolutely darling. I hav e a sweet treat linky party going on at m y blog till Monday night and I'd lov e it if y ou'd stop by and link y our cookies up. http://sweetas-sugar-cookies.blogspot.com /2 01 1 /1 2 /sweets-forsaturday -50.htm l Reply

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Hidden_Relic: That sounds adorable! And y ou could m ake them heart shaped too (two candy canes stuck together). Elizabeth: Thanks! Lisa: I'll check it out :). Reply

my lovely bit es January 3 , 2 01 2 at 7 :51 PM Such cute cookies! And the colors are am azing, so bright and

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