Peppermint Candy Cookies
Source of Recipe
Friendly Freezer
List of Ingredients
1 cup butter -- softened
1/2 cup confectioner's sugar
1 tsp vanilla
2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 cup walnuts -- chopped
Candy Mixture:
1/4 lb peppermint candy -- crushed
1/2 cup confectioner's sugar
The Filling
2 TBS cream cheese -- softened
1 tsp milk
1 drop red food coloring
1/2 cup confectioner's sugar
3 TBS candy mixture -- see above
Recipe
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 TBS 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 F 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.
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