The sugar/crushed peppermint is sprinkled on top of the hot cookies *IMMEDIATELY* after coming out of the oven. If you buy pre-crushed peppermint, you may need to crush it even more by placing it in a bag and smashing it with a rolling pin or crushing it more in a food processor (our preference). For best result, small pieces of peppermint mixed with a finely crushed peppermint is the best mixture (see our photos). The cookies are baked in the oven, giving you just enough time to create a mixture of sugar and finely crushed peppermint candies. If your dough is becoming warm at any point, place it back into the refrigerator. The two rope colors are twisted together and then placed on a baking sheet, curving the top to one side so that it forms the look of a candy cane. I like the 5″ long because I prefer a more slender candy cane look. You’ll find that many Candy Cane Cookie recipes will tell you to make the ropes 4″ long. To make a Candy Cane Cookie, you take 1 teaspoon of each color and roll each color out into a “rope” that is about 5″ long. If you have a local bakery supply store, they are also a great resource for food coloring gels. Check the usual baking aisle or the craft department. I usually buy it at Michaels craft store or JOANN Fabric & Crafts (be sure to use one of their coupons!), but I’ve also seen it at Walmart. Some grocery stores may not carry gel food coloring. With food coloring gel, you’ll be able to use less food coloring since it’s more concentrated. The liquid food coloring will add too much liquid/moisture to the dough to achieve the bright red color. It is VERY IMPORTANT that you use gel food coloring and that you do not use liquid food coloring. One half of the dough is left as the original cookie dough color, but the other half is tinted with red food coloring gel. This Candy Cane Cookie dough is a simple sugar cookie dough, which is divided in half. DO NOT skip this step and if your dough begins to get too warm (either due to the heat of your hands, the temperature in your home, etc), it may need to be put back into the refrigerator to chill some more. While all the steps to this recipe need to be followed, I would say it’s most important step. You’ll be relieved to know that no magic or superpowers are needed to make these cookies, but there is several important steps.īecause this dough requires you to handle and roll the dough with your hands, the chilling of the dough is VERY important. I’m not sure my kids are as impressed with mine, as I was with my mom’s, but I know they love them and I know that they eat them almost as fast as I can make them. Eventually, when I was a young wife and mom, I made those Candy Cane Cookies for my kids. But she didn’t give me all her secrets and so the magic remained.Īt some point, my mom stopped making Candy Cane Cookies. But her times of making them were enough to seal a memory in my mind. How did she make the two colors? How did she make it all twisted together? Just how did she do it? I asked her. I didn’t understand how my mom could transform a candy cane into a delightfully sweet cookie. Because my memory is that when my mom made those cookies, she was a superstar baker. I’m not sure if she never thought to have us help, of if she preferred to do it herself, or maybe us kids didn’t want to help, but it wasn’t something I made with my mom.īut while that might seem a bit sad, it’s totally not. I don’t recall ever helping my mom make them. Candy Cane Cookies always seem to be one of the top memory-making Christmas cookies.īut, making candy cane cookies side-by-side with my mother, wasn’t my memory. A lot of times, they will me how they made them with their mom for Christmas and, because of that, the cookies always held a special place in their heart. I’ve talked with other people about Candy Cane Cookies over the years. But there was one cookie that my mom made for Christmas that I loved: Candy Cane Cookies. One was Russian Teacakes and while I certainly didn’t turn them down, they weren’t my favorite. When I was little, there were only two cookies that I vividly remember my mom making for Christmas. Click here to read our full disclosure policy. This post is brought to you in partnership with REAL® Seal & contains some affiliate links for your convenience. Always a favorite at Christmas parties and cookie exchanges. This Christmas Candy Cane Cookies recipe is a family-favorite cookie that creates sweet holiday memories. Made from a simple cookie dough recipe, with plenty of festive peppermint flavor, the colorful dough is twisted to look like a real candy cane.
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