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Peppermint Candy Cookies

Author/Submitted by: Frugal Gourmet's Christmas
Servings: 36
Categories: Christmas / Cookies / Desserts

Ingredients:
1  cup  butter, softened
1/2  cup  confectioner's sugar
1  teaspoon  vanilla
2 1/2  cups  flour, all-purpose
1/2  cup  walnuts, chopped
    candy mixture
1/4  pound  peppermint candy, crushed
1/2  cup  confectioner's sugar
    The Filling
2  tablespoons  cream cheese, softened
1  teaspoon  milk
1  drop  red food coloring
1/2  cup  confectioner's sugar
3  Tablespoons  candy mixture, see above

Directions:
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 T 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 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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