I just made these candy cane sugar cookies for a Christmas Party earlier this week and loved how cute they turned out. They were pretty easy to make and I liked how fun and festive they were.
I saw the idea over at Martha Stewart but decided to use a different recipe as I am not a big fan of Martha’s recipes sometimes. Does anyone else feel that way? Don’t get me wrong…I LOVE Martha and her creativity, but I just personally have a hard time getting some of her recipes to turn out right. So…anyways, I used this sugar cookie recipe from Country Living.
Honestly, the cookies looked great, but they tasted just okay. So, I am tempted to make them again with a different sugar cookie recipe. The trick is to get a sugar cookie dough that is fairly stiff so that the cookies keep their nice candy cane shape and don’t flatten out [and to pop them in the fridge for 20 minutes after they are in the candy cane shape but before you bake them}. Any one have a recipe they think would fit the bill?
With the left over cookie dough, I rolled the white into a thick log and wrapped the thinner layer of red around it to make the two tone circle cookies and added a Hershey’s candy cane kiss to the top immediately after they came out of the oven. Be sure to pop the cookies into the fridge or freezer right away, or the kisses might end up looking a bit like this:
Not too pretty! Have you tried these candy cane kisses? Two words…Yum-O!
We have another Christmas party and I think I will make these from Recipe Girl…which by the way…if you haven’t seen her site, you need to check it out like now!
{image from Recipe Girl}
Don’t they look amazing??
★Amy
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