Recipe#7417

Title: Candy Cane 02

From: "Mary f (Pud)" frye@sdd.comsat.com 
 Newsgroups: rec.food.recipes 
 Subject: Candy Cane Cookies 
 Date: 19 Dec 1995 18:22:13 -0700 
 Message-ID: <9512182043.AA13594@mrslate.sdd.comsat.com> 

My Aunt made these and they are one of my favorite Christmas cookies.  
 They are delicate in flavor and usually a real winner.
 1 cup shortening (or margarine)
 1 cup sifted confectioners sugar
 1 egg
 1 1/2 teaspoons almond extract
 1 teaspoon vanilla
 2 1/2 cups gold medal wondra flour (cake flour)
 1 teaspoon salt
 1/2 teaspoon red food coloring
 granulated sugar
 Preheat oven to 375o.  Mix first 5 ingredients together.  Sift flour and 
 salt together.  Stir 1/2 of flour mixture into shortening mixture.   
 Work remaining flour into mixture with hands until the dough holds 
 together.  Divide dough in half.  Mix 1/2 of dough with red food 
 coloring.  Pinch off a bit of white dough and roll into a long 
 cigarette, pinch off a bit of red dough and roll into a long cigarette.  
 Twist white and red dough together, place on cookie sheet and bend into 
 a candy cane shape.  Bake 9 minutes.  Remove from oven and dust with 
 granulated sugar.  The first time you make them watch the time as your
 cookies might be larger or smaller than mine :-).
 Mary f