Candy Cane Cookies

Name: Candy Cane Cookies
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 80
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 1 Tbsp baking powder; 227 grams cup butter, at room temperature; 2 larges egg yolks; 710 milliliters all-purpose flour; 5 Tbsps milk; 0 teaspoons peppermint extract; 80 servings Red food coloring; 0 teaspoons salt; 237 milliliters sugar; 1 teaspoon vanilla

Candy Cane Cookies might be just the dessert you are searching for. This recipe serves 80. One serving contains 49 calories, 1g of protein, and 2g of fat. This recipe covers 1% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. It is perfect for Christmas. It is a good option if you're following a vegetarian diet. Head to the store and pick up baking powder, vanilla, peppermint extract, and a few other things to make it today. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes roughly 45 minutes.

Instructions

In a large bowl, with an electric mixer on high speed, beat butter and sugar until smooth; beat in egg yolks.

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Egg Yolk

Butter

Sugar

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Hand Mixer

Bowl

In another bowl, mix flour, baking powder, and salt. In a small bowl, combine milk, vanilla, and peppermint extract. Stir flour mixture into butter mixture alternately with milk mixture, blending thoroughly after each addition.

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Peppermint Extract

Baking Powder

Vanilla

Butter

All Purpose Flour

Milk

Salt

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Bowl

Divide dough in half. Leave one half in the mixing bowl and stir in a few drops of red food coloring.

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Red Food Color

Dough

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Mixing Bowl

Divide each half of dough in half again (four portions total); wrap dough portions in waxed paper or cooking parchment and chill until firm but still pliable, about 1 hour.

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Dough

Wrap

Unwrap dough and roll each of the four pieces into a smooth rope about 15 inches long. Twist each white rope with a red rope into a 13-inch-long combined rope (for a total of two ropes). Wrap twisted rolls in waxed paper; chill until firm, at least 4 hours, or up to 1 week (see notes).

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Dough

Roll