1 cup butter or margarine
1 cup sifted confectioners sugar
1 egg
1-1/2 teaspoon almond flavoring OR 3/4 teaspoon peppermint flavoring
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 1/2 cups all purpose flour
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup crushed peppermint candy
1/2 cup white sugar
Preheat oven to 375 F. Mix butter sugar, egg, and flavorings thoroughly. Add flour and salt, Mix well. Shape dough into a disk and wrap with plastic wrap; chill for at least 2 hours or until easy to handle. Roll into 4 inch strips; place on baking sheet. Curve top down to form handle or cane. Bake 9 minutes. While still warm, remove from pan and sprinkle with candy and sugar mixture.
Dough may be divided in half and colored with 1/2 teaspoon red food coloring if desired. Roll each color into strips, place side by side, press together lightly and twist like a rope.
Note: Reviewers: please help us out and let us know how many cookies this recipe yields. Thanks!
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A cookie baker Feb 3, 2010
Would make this again.
it is yummy!!!!!!!!( munch munch)
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baking for party in edmonton Dec 16, 2009
Would make this again.
These cookies are amazing, I to made them with my mother for years and now I'm going to try making them myself for my party and surprise her.
Thanks.
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A cookie baker Dec 14, 2009
Would not make this again.
I baked my cookies for 7 minutes and normally my oven is right on but my cookies were hard out of the oven and the mixture wouldn't stick. The flavor was dull and not sweet enough. I refrigerated the dough for about 4 hours and it was still very hard for me to shape the cookies. Having said that, once I got them twisted together and shaped, they were absolutely adorable, just not tasty or easily made. I will try to make candy cane cookies again but it will be with different recipe.
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A cookie baker Dec 14, 2009
Would not make this again.
We really looked forward to making these but were completely disappointed. Not a single one of my 6 member family liked them because they weren't sweet enough and didn't have much flavor.
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A cookie baker in canada Dec 6, 2009
Would make this again.
awesome recipie!!