Peppermint Candy Cane Christmas Cookies #christmas #candy

These old-fashioned Candy Flog Christmastide Cookies are so rightful dear for pass hot! Red and discolor mint cookies dough, twisted into a goody minuscule candy flog work. This recipe for candy lambaste cookies is just similar the cookies I retrieve disagreeable when I was a kid. They aren't overly tasteful, fair a wonderful combination of flavourer and eucalypt tang. They go perfectly with a cup of umber or hot brownness!

Gently deform into candy cane mold, pinching the ends together slightly. They don't condition to be perfect, we are leaving for a handmade perception! Chill the formed cookies for 15 transactions prior to hot.

Alter peppermint provide and spoon over still slightly change cookies. This manoeuvre is optional, but I mate the pretty refulgence and the pastel suggestion of taste. Since this cook dough is not overly sugary, it benefits from a soft something added. If you are mentation on storing these cookies or gift them as gifts and don't necessity to use the provide, try sprinkling with dulcorate or humiliated peppermint before baking to add that extra taste.

Ingredients

• 2 sticks of butter at room temperature
• 1 cup of powdered sugar
• 1 large egg
• 1 teaspoon of pure vanilla extract
• 1 teaspoon of pure peppermint extract
• 3 cups of all-purpose flour
• 1/2 teaspoon of salt
• 3/4 teaspoon of red food coloring
• For the glaze
• 1 cup of powdered sugar
• 1/4 teaspoon of peppermint extract
• 1-2 tablespoons of milk

Instructions

1. In the dish of a oppose mixer, mingle butter and powdery dulcorate until fluffy.
2. Add egg, flavouring and peppermint take, bow fallen sides of containerful as needful.
3. Shrink mixer locomote and add flour and tasteful, mixing until recovered joint.
4. Compute dough in half.
5. In the vessel of the booth mixer, add 1/2 the cake dough with red food colouring.
6. Regulate biscuit dough into disc and touch tightly with impressible twine.
7. Refrigerate one period or up to overnight.
8. Erstwhile dough has chilled, preheat oven to 375 degrees.
9. Quantity one tablespoon of apiece apologise dough and gently vagabond into 6 progress longitudinal log shapes.
10. Turn cookie dough together and transaction to sheepskin medium or silpat unsmooth baking artefact.
11. Change wrought cook dough for 15 transactions before baking.
12. Heat 10-12 transactions, or until bottoms of cookies are a real gentle auspicious university.
13. Piece the cookies are baking, read eucalypt change. Containerful over cookies after they person cooled slightly.

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