For Christmas! Candy Cane Cookies
- 120 grams White flour
- 30 grams Corn starch
- 1/4 tsp Salt
- 112 grams Unsalted butter (room temperature)
- 30 grams Powdered sugar
- 1/2 tsp Vanilla extract
- 1/4 tsp Food coloring for red and green
- Put the flour, corn starch and salt into a bowl.
- Mix evenly with a whisk.
- Prepare another bowl to add room temperature butter.
- Mix until creamy texture.
- Add the powdered sugar into step 2's bowl to mix in.
- Then add the vanilla extract.
- Add step 1's flours into the bowl.
- Mix well with a spatula until no longer floury, and mix together.
- Divide the dough into half, and put one dough into a bowl.
- Pour the food coloring in the centre of the dough.
- Mix it evenly by folding the dough.
- Wrap each dough with plastic wrap, and rest in a fridge for 30 min to 1 hour.
- Preheat the oven to 175C.
- Take 5 g of each dough, and roll each piece into about 10 cm long sticks.
- Place 2 colors of sticks to put together.
- Twist the sticks, and bend one edge to shape into a candy cane.
- Line the cookies on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
- If it's difficult to twist, then make 2 colors of 5 cm length sticks like step 7, and combine them like the photo of step 7.
- Twist and roll it out to make one stick.
- Then shape it into to a candy cane.
- Bake for 12-14 minutes in the preheated oven.
- The left cookie is the one made by twisting it, and the right cookie is the one made using step 10.
- These are 3 colors version with green food colouring.
- When making 3 colours, take 4 g each and roll into stick shape, line them all together to twist.
- It's a bit hard to show 3 colours evenly, but it's cute anyway!
white flour, starch, salt, butter, powdered sugar, vanilla, coloring for
Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/170255-for-christmas-candy-cane-cookies (may not work)