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Holiday: Candy Cane Twists

Source of Recipe

Posted by SFO or PSP at RC


List of Ingredients

3 1/4 Cup Sifted All Purpose Flour

4 tsp Baking Powder

1 Tsp Salt

1/2 Cup (1 Stick) Butter

1 1/4 Sugar

1 Egg

1/2 tsp vanilla

1/4 Cup Milk

Red Food Coloring





Recipe

Measure flour, baking powder and salt into a sifter.

Cream butter and sugar until fluffy in a large bowl.

Beat in egg and vanilla

Sift in dry ingredients, a third at a time, adding alternately with milk, stir well until blended.

Spoon half of dough into medium size bowl. Blend in a few drops of red food color to pink or light red. Leave the other half plain.

Pinch off a a teaspoonful each of red and white dough at a time.Roll each into a strip about 4 or 5 inches long on a LIGHTLY floured board.

Place the strips side by side and press the ends together. Then twist into a rope.

You can shape into candy canes or circles. Place on a cookie sheet about 1 inch apart.

Bake in moderate oven 350 for 10 minutes or until firm.

Remove carefully from sheets and cool on wire racks.



YIELD: About 5 Dozen