Candy Cane Cookies

Day 8 of the 12 Days of Treats from the Control Freak

I make a version of this cookie every year, but did not have one ingredient (mine uses the sugar cookie packets) so decided to go with Katie's recipe and I am so glad I did! The girls had a blast making these, and even though they were not very uniform in size, they were great!

Candy Cane Cookies

From Good Things Catered

Ingredients:
1 1/4 c. sugar
1 c. butter
1 egg
1/2 c. milk
1 tsp vanilla
1 tsp peppermint extract
3 ½ c. all purpose flour
1 tsp baking powder
¼ tsp salt
½ tsp red food color (plus more to the color you desire)

Directions:
- Cream together sugar and butter
- Add egg, then milk, vanilla, and peppermint extract.
- Stir in flour, baking powder and salt.
- Divide dough in half.
- Stir food color into one half.
- Cover and refrigerate at least 4 hours.
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
- For each candy cane, shape one rounded tsp dough from each half into 4-inch rope by rolling back and forth on clean surface. (don’t use flour or it won’t stick to the other half)
- Place one red and white rope side by side; press together lightly and twist.
- Place on prepared cookie sheet; curve top of cookie down to form handle of cane.
- Bake 9 to 12 minutes or until set and very light brown.
- Remove from cookie sheet to wire rack and cool completely.