Saturday, December 01, 2007
A Cookie A Day...Day 5 - Candy Canes
| By Lynn Forgy A Cookie A Day...Day 5 - Candy Canes  I found a great recipe in a 1977 Family Circle book. The book is chock full of gift ideas that you can make starting at just $.10 (of course, that was 30 years ago and the prices may have gone up somewhat, but are still very cheap to make). Recipes are included in the book, and I came across a Candy Cane recipe that I thought I would post since today is December 1st - only 24 days to go to Christmas!! Ingredients: 3 1/4 c sifted all purpose flour 4 tsp baking powder 1 tsp salt 1/2 c butter or margarine, softened 1 1/4 c sugar 1 egg 1/2 tsp peppermint extract 1/4 c milk Red food coloring Directions: 1. Sift flour, baking powder and salt onto wax paper. 2. Beat butter or margarine and sugar until fluffy in a large bowl; beat in egg and peppermint extract. Stir in flour mixture alternately with milk. 3. Spoon half of dough into a medium-size bowl; tint pink with red food coloring. Leave remaining dough plain. 4. Pinch off about a teaspoonful of each dough; roll each into a pencil-thin strip 5 inches long. Place strips side by side, pressing ends together; twist. Place on ungreased cookie sheets, 1 inch apart, bending into cane shape. 5. Bake in moderate oven (350 degrees) 10 minutes, or until firm. Cool a few minutes on cookie sheets. Carefully remove to wire racks with spatula; cool. The recipe states that these are nice to hang on the tree - but why not make enough to eat too? How frugal can you get - not only do you have cute little candy canes to eat, but these are versatile enough to hang on the Christmas tree as ornaments! Enjoy! |
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