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CANDY CANE COOKIES 3/4 c. butter or margarine 3/4 c. sugar 1 egg 1/2 tsp. vanilla 1/2 tsp. peppermint extract 2 c. flour 1/2 tsp. salt 1/4 tsp. baking powder 1/3 c. flaked coconut (optional) 1 tsp. red food coloring Cream butter and sugar. Beat in egg, vanilla and peppermint extract. Stir flour with salt and baking powder. Put into creamed mixture and divide dough into halves. Stir coconut into one portion of dough. Into other half, stir in red food coloring. Chill both halves of dough, for thirty minutes. Divide white dough into thirty balls and do the same with red dough. With hands, roll each ball into lengths. Twist a red length and a white length together to form a candy cane and pinch at ends, placing on ungreased cookie sheet. Repeat with all. Bake at 375 degrees for 10 minutes. Makes 30 cookies. This is a recipe from our database at Cookbooks On/Line! 1,000,000+ free recipes and free software at: http://www.cookbooks.com Accuracy is believed to be good, but is not guaranteed. This recipe posting is intended for personal use only. You can print a copy for yourself and/or your friends, but you cannot publish it or post it to any Internet or other public site without our permission. |