Peppermint candy cookies
Yield: 36 Servings
Ingredients:
- 1 c butter -- softened
- 1/2 c confectioner's sugar
- 1 ts vanilla
- 2 1/2 c flour all-purpose
- 1/2 c walnuts -- chopped : candy mixture
- 1/4 lb peppermint candy -- crushed
- 1/2 c confectioner's sugar : The Filling
- 2 TB cream cheese -- softened
- 1 ts milk
- 1 dr red food coloring
- 1/2 c confectioner's sugar
- 3 TB candy mixture -- see above
Instructions:
Cream the butter sugar and vanilla together until fluffy. Add the flour and walnuts and blend to form dough. Wrap in plastic wrap and chill for 1 hour. Candy mixture: In a small bowl combine both ingredients. Set aside. Three tablespoons of this mixture is used in the filling and the remainder is used to garnish the cookies. The filling: In a bowl blend together the cream cheese milk food coloring and the conf. sugar until smooth. Blend in 3 T of the cnady mixture. Remove the dough from the refrigerator and for each cookie pinch off a rounded teaspoon of the dough. Form into a ball and shape around your thumb to make a little compartment in the middle. Place about 1/4 teaspoon of the cream cheese filling in the depression. Pinch the dough back together and roll it back into a ball. Repeat the process with the remaining dough and filling. Place the balls on a nonstick cookie sheet. Bake in a preheated 350 oven for 10-12 minutes. Do not brown. Remove cookies to a cooling rack. To garnish roll the cooled cookies in the remaining candy mixture. Recipe By : Frugal Gourmet's Christmas Date: Tue 29 Oct 1996 20:14:11 ~0500 (
