Candy Cane Cookies

Total Time: 22 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 12 mins

Ingredients

• 1 cup butter, softened
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 egg
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 dash peppermint extract, i actually use 1 tsp
• 3 1/2 cups flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 pinch salt
• 1/2 cup milk
• red food coloring

Recipe

• 1 cream together butter and sugar until smooth.
• 2 beat in egg, vanilla and peppermint extract.
• 3 stir together flour, baking powder and salt.
• 4 alternately with milk add dry ingredients to creamed butter mixture. 3 dry, 2 milk. until smooth and pliable.
• 5 divide in 1/2; blend food coloring into 1/2.
• 6 cover and chill for 4 hours or firm.
• 7 cut each into 48 pieces.
• 8 with hands, gently roll one piece of each color into 4 inch rope. place side by side and twist together.
• 9 put on cookie sheet, form a cane.
• 10 bake at 375 f for 12-15 minutes.
• 11 hints: gently squish the ropes together and onto the cookie sheet, that way they stay together and don't unravel. since i make 8 dozen each year, i make 2 batches of dough and add the food coloring to the milk of one dough, that way i don't have to over work the dough trying to get the color evenly mixed inches.