Candy Stripe Cookies! So adorable and so delicious! What can I say? Want to impress everyone? They would never guess how easy these are to make and you won't give your secret away either.
These are another awesome treat that Cafe Treats Baker Dorene made for the Sunday before Christmas. I have to say that really fast. It is so hard to believe Christmas is only a couple of days away. Where has the month gone?
We have already celebrated with our CO son and his family for Christmas and also with our MO son and his family. We will still attend church on Christmas Eve with our MO family and then just the two of us for the 11 pm Candlelight service later that night.
I guess I am getting used to it and have learned that you can celebrate anything anytime you want to, but it would be fun though to be able to have a Christmas like I had growing up when the whole family - maternal aunts and uncles and their kids got together on Christmas Day at Grandma and Granddaddy's house. My paternal grandparents were divorced and lived out of state so I didn't see them very often. My paternal granddaddy died when I was eleven. My mother's family was very close.
CANDY STRIPE COOKIES
1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter at room temperature
1/2 cup butter-flavored shortening
1-1/2 cup sugar
1 large egg
2 tablespoons milk
1 teaspoon vanilla
3 cups flour
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon mint/peppermint extract
red food coloring (or green would be pretty also)
In a large mixing bowl, cream the butter, shortening, and sugar until light and fluffy.
Beat in the egg, milk, and vanilla.
Combine the flour, baking soda and salt and then add to creamed mixture. Stir just until combined.
Divide the dough in half. Flavor one half of the dough with 1/2 teaspoon the mint or peppermint extract and tint with the red food coloring.
Line a loaf pan with waxed paper.
Divide each portion in half.
Press one of the red tinted portions in the bottom of the pan.
Top with one of the white portions and then the other red tinted portion. Finally press the other white portion on top.
Cover and refrigerate for 1 hour or until thoroughly chilled.
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
Invert the pan and remove the waxed paper. Cut the dough in half lengthwise. Cut each half in 1/4 - inch slices; place slices 2 inches apart on an ungreased cookie sheet.
Bake for 10 to 12 minutes or until edges begin to brown.
Cool on a wire rack.
Whatever holiday you might be celebrating, I hope it is a blessing for you and that 2025 blesses you also.
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