Title: Frosted Cookie Canes
Categories: Dessert Cookie Holiday
Yield: 6 Dozen

1	c	Butter
1/2	c	Powdered sugar
1	ts	Vanilla
1/4	ts	Salt
2	c	Sifted all purpose flour
1/4	ts	Baking powder
PEPPERMINT FROSTING
	x	Cream*
1 1/2	c	Powdered sugar
1	ts	Vanilla
1/4	ts	Peppermint extract
	ds	Red food coloring

For Cookie cream butter, add sugar gradually; blend in vanilla, salt and sifted dry ingredients. Chill

Shape level teaspoonfuls of dough into pencil like strips. Turn one end to resemble a cane; place on greased cookie sheets.

Bake in preheated 350 degree oven about 10 minutes. Cool. Make frosting.

Peppermint Frosting:

*No exact amount - use enough cream to make frosting on spreading consistency.

Mix powdered sugar vanilla, peppermint together, add enough cream to get nice spreading consistency. Divide frosting in half; color one half red. Decorate canes with alternate strips of red and white.

Wisconsin Electric Co 1950

== Courtesy of Dale & Gail Shipp, Columbia Md. ==

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