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