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Ingredients:

• 1 cup butter
• 1/2 cup white sugar
• 1/2 cup confectioners’ sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 teaspoon peppermint extract
• 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon red food coloring (about 10 to 15 drops)
• 1/2 cup peppermint candy, crushed
• 1/2 cup white sugar, for decoration

Directions:

In a large bowl, cream together the butter, white sugar and confectioners’ sugar. Beat in the egg, vanilla and peppermint extracts. Combine the flour and salt; stir into the creamed mixture until well blended. Cover or wrap dough and chill for at least one hour. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees. Divide dough into halves. Color one half red by mixing in the food color. Roll a small amount of each dough into a 2 inch long worm. Roll them together in a twisted rope and curve the end like a cane. Place onto prepared cookie sheets. Bake for 8 to 10 minutes in the preheated oven. In a small bowl, mix together the crushed candy cane and remaining white sugar. Roll hot cookies in the sugar mixture.

Makes about 4 dozen cookies.

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Substitutions:

Mix the food coloring into the dough before chilling (a lot easier). The dough gets sticky pretty quickly, so it may need to be refrigerated again half way through. The cookies fell apart when I tried rolling them in the candy/sugar mixture, so I just sprinkled it over top while the cookies were warm. I used 25 peppermint candies and had a lot of topping leftover.

Recipe courtesy of Allrecipes.