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Title: Peppermint Candy Cookies
Categories: Christmas Cookie
Yield: 36 Servings
| 1 c | butter -- softened | |
| 1 | /2 c | confectioner's sugar |
| 1 t | s vanilla | |
| 2 1 | /2 c | flour, all-purpose |
| 1 | /2 c | walnuts -- chopped |
| : | candy mixture | |
| 1 | /4 l | b peppermint candy -- crushed |
| 1 | /2 c | confectioner's sugar |
| : | The Filling | |
| 2 T | B cream cheese -- softened | |
| 1 t | s milk | |
| 1 d | r red food coloring | |
| 1 | /2 c | confectioner's sugar |
| 3 T | B candy mixture -- see above |
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 (
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