CANDY CANE COOKIES (OR CUTOUTS!)

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My best friend in college gave me this recipe from her mom's collection. They're wonderful as written, however, add a little extra flour to the dough, skip tinting half red, and you have the most delicious sugar cookie dough for cookie cutouts I've ever had! I've used this dough for Xmas Cutouts for over a decade now. I use the icing from Recipe #261889.

Provided by Lizzymommy

Categories Dessert

Time 24m

Yield 24-36 cookies, depending on size

Number Of Ingredients 8

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Ingredients

1 cup butter
1 cup powdered sugar
1 egg
1/2 teaspoon almond extract
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 1/2 cups flour
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon red food coloring

Steps:

Beat together butter, powdered sugar, egg, almond extract and vanilla.
Mix together flour and salt, and add to the wet ingredients, stirring until well-combined.
Divide dough in half. Add red food coloring to half the dough. Roll even logs 1/2" wide of red dough, then white dough. Twist together and bend top to form cane shape.
Bake on ungreased sheet for 9 minute at 375 deg. Can be sprinkled with a crushed candy cane and sugar mixture while still warm.

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LUSINDA ELATTR

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These cookies are the perfect holiday treat! They're delicious, festive, and easy to make.

Ham Za

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I had a hard time finding candy canes that were the right size for these cookies. I ended up using regular candy canes and cutting them in half.

electromite

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These cookies are so festive and delicious! I love the way they look on my Christmas plate.

Muslima Suyarova

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I've never made candy cane cookies before, but these were surprisingly easy to make! I'm definitely going to make them again next year.

Bashir Awan

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These cookies were a bit too minty for my taste, but my friends seemed to enjoy them.

Sojib Rana

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I made these cookies for my family and they loved them! The peppermint flavor is perfect for the holidays.

Khalid Wattoo

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These cookies are so cute! I love the candy cane shape.

Sadaf Kulsoom

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These cookies are delicious, but they are a bit time-consuming to make. I would recommend making them on a weekend or when you have plenty of time.

Mahamad Pshko

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I've made these cookies several times and they're always a hit! They're the perfect Christmas cookie.

faraz saleem

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These cookies are so easy to make and they always turn out perfect! I love that I can make them ahead of time and freeze them.

Rico Robledo

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I had a hard time getting the dough to roll out without it sticking to my rolling pin. I ended up using a lot of flour, which made the cookies a bit dry.