Candy Cane Spritz Cookies
Candy Cane Spritz Cookies. December 16, 2023.
Candy cane spritz cookies are a yummy piece of childhood nostalgia for me. Those pretty red and cream striped cookies with the essence of peppermint were beloved and emblazoned into my memory. The very sight of them sung “Christmas is coming” and filled the air with Christmas spirit. And they are not exactly simple to put together.
I can’t remember where the original recipe comes from, but I do know spritz cookie dough was involved, and I remembered the basic technique to make these. This is a recipe that takes some time and patience, so I made a cup of coffee and turned on Nutcracker music for a lovely cookie-making afternoon!
You can use your own spritz cookie dough for this, but I did provide the spritz dough recipe I used which comes from an old Better Homes and Gardens cookbook from 2006. Someone gave us a Better Homes and Garden Cookbook when we got married in 1994 and it was a life saver! That was the best wedding present! That trusty cookbook got me through my early years of learning to cook. And when that one wore out, I got another one. And I still love to use their recipes today! Better Homes and Gardens still has the original spritz cookie recipe published on their site today which is right here. Good things stand the test of time.
So Festive!
Candy Cane Spritz Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups butter, salted (room temperature)
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 tsp. peppermint extract
- 1 tsp. baking powder
- 3 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- a few drops of red or pink food coloring (I used pink)
- decorative sugar sprinkles (optional)
Instructions
- Cream butter and sugar.
- Add baking powder, extract, and egg and combine.
- Add flour and mix till combined.
- Divide dough in half and add food coloring to one half.
- Shape both pieces of dough into large balls, cover with saran wrap and refrigerate for an hour.
- Remove dough balls from refrigerator and cut each ball into 12 pieces (24 pieces of dough total).
- Roll one section each of pink and white dough sections into ropes about 18 inches long.
- Loosely twist them together.
- Tighten the coil by twisting gently at the ends.
- Cut rope of dough into 3 sections (about 6 inches each).
- Shape into candy canes and put on baking sheet lined with parchment.
- If desired, sprinkle with decorative sugar.
- Bake at 375 degrees for 8 minutes.
- Let cool on sheet for a few minutes before removing to avoid breaking cookies.
- Can be made ahead and frozen (carefully!)
Notes
- Refrigerate your dough.
- Roll dough strip carefully working from one end to the other to avoid breaking rope.
- Loosely intertwine both ropes first as shown in photo and then twist at either end to tighten the rope.
- If you break dough just smoosh it back together and keep going.
- Spritz dough is fragile, so work gently as you go!
Have a beautiful day!
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