Let’s celebrate Day #3 of our 12 Days of Christmas Cookies with these fun Candy Cane Sugar Cookies. A simple sugar cookie dough that’s made in three colors then twisted into a pretty candy cane shape. Let me show you how easy these cookies are to make for your family.
12 Days of Christmas Cookies
I hope you’re enjoying the new Christmas cookie recipes I’m sharing with you. Day #3 continues with Candy Cane Sugar Cookies. These are a fun cookie that always look great on a cookie tray around the holidays.
Let’s take a look at the other cookies I’ve shared so far this week:
- Day #1: Shortbread Cookies
- Day #2: Slice and Bake Cookies
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Candy Cane Sugar Cookies
These are always a fun cookie to make for the holidays. Usually you see them in the traditional red and white colors, but this recipe has 3 colors, red, green and white.
We’re going to make red and green candy canes as well as red and white candy canes. And you can also make green and white candy canes too! Let’s have fun with these cookies.
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Ingredients for Candy Cane Sugar Cookies
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- 2 1/2 cups flour
- 1 cup confectioners sugar
- ½ cup softened butter at room temperature
- Shortening – 1/2 cup
- 1 egg
- Almond extract 1 1/2 tsp.
- 1 tsp. vanilla extract
- ½ tsp. salt
- red and green food coloring
How to Make Candy Cane Sugar Cookies
In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with a paddle attachment, mix together the butter and shortening. Then add the confectioners sugar, egg, and extracts.
Combine the flour and salt together in a separate bowl and then add it to the butter mixture. Blend on low speed until incorporated.
Divide the dough into 3 sections and add to 3 separate bowls.
Mix red food coloring into one, green into another, and leave one plain. Wrap dough separately in plastic wrap and place in refrigerator for at least an hour.
How to Form the Candy Cane Shape
Let’s form the candy cane shapes!
Remember, we’re making red and white candy canes, green and white candy canes as well as red and green candy canes.
Pull off a rounded teaspoon of two different colored doughs. Roll them into long ropes on top of a floured surface about 4 inches long.
Next, place the two ropes side by side and pinch them together at the top. Then twist the two colored doughs together and gently bend the top into a hook.
Place directly on Baking Trays that have been lined with Parchment Baking Sheets.
Finish making the candy canes alternating the colors till you have a baking sheet full of candy cane sugar cookies.
How to Bake the Cookies
Bake at 375° for 10 minutes or until they are golden. You don’t want to over bake the cookies as they will be dry.
The cookies will be very fragile so be careful when moving them to a wire rack to cool completely.
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12 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS COOKIE RECIPES
Make sure you check out these other Christmas Cookies featured for Day #2 from a few of my foodie friends joining in on the celebration.
- Flour On My Face: Mexican Wedding Cookies
- Walking on Sunshine Recipes: Candy Cane Sugar Cookies – this recipe
- Glenda Embree: Snickerdoodles
- Fat Dad Foodie: Christmas Ugly Sweater Cookies
Candy Cane Sugar Cookies Recipe
Candy Cane Sugar Cookies - A simple sugar cookie dough that's made in three colors then twisted into a pretty candy cane shape. Let me show you how easy these cookies are to make for your family.
Ingredients
- 2 1/2 cups flour
- 1 cup confectioner's sugar
- ½ cup softened butter at room temperature
- 1/2 cup Shortening
- 1 egg
- 1 1/2 tsp. almond extract
- 1 tsp. vanilla extract
- ½ tsp. salt
- red and green food coloring
Instructions
- In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with a paddle attachment, mix together the butter and shortening. Then add the confectioners sugar, egg, and extracts.
- Combine the flour and salt together in a separate bowl and then add it to the butter mixture. Blend on low speed until incorporated.
- Divide the dough into 3 sections and add to 3 separate bowls.
- Mix red food coloring into one, green into another, and leave one plain. Wrap dough separately in plastic wrap and place in refrigerator for at least an hour.
How to Form the Candy Cane Shapes
- Pull off a rounded teaspoon of two different colored doughs. Roll them into long ropes about 4 inches long on top of a floured surface.
- Next, place the two ropes side by side and pinch them together at the top. Then twist the two colored doughs together and gently bend the top into a hook.
- Place directly on cookie sheets that have been lined with Parchment Baking Sheets.
- Finish making the candy canes alternating the colors till you have a baking sheet full of candy cane sugar cookies.
- Bake in a preheated 375° for 10 minutes or until they are golden. You don't want to over bake the cookies as they will be dry.
Notes
The cookies will be very fragile so be careful when moving them to a wire rack to cool completely.
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Nutrition Information:
Yield: 36 Serving Size: 1Amount Per Serving: Calories: 95Total Fat: 6gSaturated Fat: 3gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 2gCholesterol: 14mgSodium: 55mgCarbohydrates: 10gFiber: 0gSugar: 3gProtein: 1g
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Thx for posting at Funtastic Friday link party. These must look so sweet on a Christmas table. Pinned to my cookie board.
This will be my first year of making and twisting candy cane cookies. Once school is out for the holidays, the kids want to bake cookies.
Theses are seriously so fun! Such a great idea and I can’t wait to make some for my grandkids! Thanks for sharing your recipe!
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