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Make a cookie version of that iconic Christmas treat, the candy cane. The recipe even has the familiar peppermint flavor. Ingredients:
1 cup butter, softened |
1/2 cup brown sugar, packed |
1/4 cup sugar |
2 egg yolks |
1 teaspoon vanilla extract |
1/2 teaspoon peppermint extract |
1/4 teaspoon salt |
2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour |
red food coloring |
Directions:
1. Cream butter and sugars together; add egg yolks. Stir in extracts and set aside. Combine salt and flour; stir into sugar mixture. Divide dough in 2 equal portions and tint one portion red. Remove one tablespoon of dough from each bowl. On a very lightly floured surface, shape each tablespoon of dough by rolling under both hands to form a rope. Place the 2 ropes side-by-side and gently twist together. Carefully bend the top to form a candy cane; continue with remaining dough in each bowl. Place candy canes on an ungreased baking sheet, about one inch apart; bake at 350° for 8 minutes. Do not brown. Let cool on baking sheet.
2. Packaging Instructions: Make one of these adorable bags for each guest at your cookie exchange party to carry home samples from the party. Cut a 3 1/2 x 5 1/2 piece from card stock for a pocket; glue sides and bottom of the pocket to the front of a decorative lunchsize paper bag. Trace this gingerbread man and heart pattern onto tracing paper. Use the patterns to cut one gingerbread man from card stock, 2 hearts from fabric and one heart from batting. Glue the gingerbread man to white card stock; leaving a 1/4 border, use decorative-edge craft scissors to cut out gingerbread man.
3. Glue batting heart between 2 fabric hearts. Glue the heart to the gingerbread man. Use a fine-point marker to draw a face and a red colored pencil to draw cheeks on the gingerbread man. Draw a black zigzag line along the edges of the pocket. Cut a 3 x 4 1/2 card from red & white striped decorative paper. Matching bottom edges, glue it to a blank 3 x 5 card; write desired recipe on the card, then tuck it into the pocket. Fill the bag with treats. Fold the top of the bag 1 to the wrong side. Punch two holes at the top center of the bag through the fold. Use a strand or 2 of raffia to tie the bag closed.
4. Tip: Remind each guest to bring copies of her cookie recipe to share. Everyone can tuck their favorite recipes in the handy pocket on the take-home cookie sacks that they'll fill at your party.
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