I wanted to share some of my favorite Holiday cookie recipes and this Christmas candy cane cookies recipe is one of my favorites. My mother has been making these cookies since before I was born, and I have the original recipe to prove it 🙂
I do change this recipe a bit, as I don’t use shortening, I substitute butter.
My mother is half Italian and she makes twenty different Christmas cookies, and stores them all in tins. Its been like this for as long as I can remember. I only make a few kinds, including these candy cane cookies, and give them as gifts around the holidays.
Candy Cane Cookies Recipe
- 1 cup unsalted butter
- 1 cup confectioner sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 1/2 teaspoon almond extract
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 2 1/2 cups flour
- red food coloring
Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
Cream the butter and sugar until smooth. Beat in the egg and extracts. Hand mix in the flour and salt just until combined. Split the dough in half and add red food coloring.
Take 1 teaspoon size balls of dough and roll into 6″ long ropes. You can use flour or confectioners sugar to stop the dough from sticking to your surface.
Twist the red and white ropes and turn the tops down into the shape of a candy cane. Place on ungreased cookie sheet.
Bake 9-10 minutes or until the edges just start to turn golden brown.
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