Me and my grandma made candy cane cookies and decorated sugar cookies. Candy cane cookies are a great way to use your sugar cookie dough.
Sugar Cookie Dough
You Will Need:
1/2 cup of butter
1 cup of granulated sugar
1 egg
1 1/2 teaspoons of vanilla extract
1 tablespoon of milk
2 cups of all-purpose flour
1 1/2 teaspoons of baking powder
1/4 teaspoons of salt
Cream butter. Add sugar and beat until lightly fluffy. Add egg and beat well. Add vanilla and milk, beat until combined.
Combine flour baking powder and salt in seperate bowl. Graduall add to the creamed mixture and beat until blended.
Form the dough into 2 balls and store in a tightly covered container in the refrigerator overnight.
When ready, heat oven to 375 degrees F. Lightly butter cookie sheets. Allow dough to warm slightly so it can be easily rolled.
Candy Cane Cookies
You Will Need:
Sugar Cookie Dough
Take out both both sections of dough. Dye one using liquid food dye and your hands. If desired dye the other.
Shape into long round strands.
Twist one coloured strand and one different coloured strand together. Shape the twisted strands into the shape of a candy cane.
Bake at 375 degrees F for 8-10 minutes. Bake more if needed.
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