Looking for something sugary sweet...
seasonally cute...
and pretty darn quick to make?
Well.
Do I have just the thing for you.
These Sweet Cherry Candy Cane Cookies are going to do the trick.
These cookies are sweet, like a sugar cookie with a little hint of cherry flavoring.
Hope you like them!
Sweet Cherry Candy Cane Cookies
Time: 1 hour
Yield: about 2 dozen cookies
Recipe from Jamie Cooks It Up!
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***NOTE: Be sure to get the dough ingredients mixed well. If you have a Kitchen Aid or Bosch mixer you will be set. If you are without one of these fine mixers, do not despair. Get your those hands of yours in the dough and mix all the ingredients up with your fingers. If the red dough is a too crumbly add just a bit more water. You want it to to hold it's shape...but not be too sticky. Don't get carried away with the water.***
2 boxes white cake mix
1 C butter melted
2 eggs
Red Dough:
1 small box black cherry jello
1 T water
1/2 t red food coloring jell
White Dough:
1 T water
1/2 t almond extract
1. In a mixing bowl, or your stand mixer beat together the cake mix, melted butter and eggs.
2. Separate the dough in half. Add the jello, water and food coloring to one half of the dough. This will make it red with a little hint on cherry flavoring.
3. To the other half of the dough add the water, and almond extract.
4. Shape each half into a big round ball. Then cut the ball into approximately 24 pieces. The picture above only shows each round being cut into about 18 pieces. Some of them were too large, so I ended up cutting them in half.
5. Take a red piece and a white piece. Roll them each into a snake shape. Then twist them around each other to make a rope. In a perfect world I would have a picture of the rope for you! I honestly thought I had taken one. So sorry, but you will just have to imagine it.
6. Shape the rope into a candy cane shape. Place on a greased cookie sheet and bake at 350 for 8 minutes, or until the cookies start to crack. Remove from the oven and let them continue to cook for about 2 minutes on the hot sheet.
7. Remove from the pan and finish cooling on a wire rack.
Enjoy!
If you get a little lazy and want to skip the roll a snake build a rope step...then just grab a piece of red dough, a piece of white dough and roll them into a ball. They make cute little red and white cookies.
They are adorable and perfect, nice tutorial too! thanks.
ReplyDeleteThese are SO pretty! I love them!
ReplyDeleteSo festive! LOVE how you wrapped up a pile of your beautiful cookies and tied them with some twill ribbon! :-)
ReplyDeleteHi! I stumbled upon coz I was looking for Christmas cookies ideas. LoveX3 the candy cane idea! I am gonna make this with a few other cookies and give them out as homemade presents. Thank you for sharing! Hugs.
ReplyDeleteI've seen these but never made them before. I bet my 2nd grade students would love them! Thanks for the recipe!
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the red dough had a hard time staying together when I rolled it. Did you have any problems. These are so cute and I think I would like to do this again but next time I will put peppermint flavoring instead of jello hoping to have better texure.
ReplyDeleteThanks for this great idea
So cute and looks so easy too! Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteYummy and cute! I so LOVE holiday baking season!
ReplyDeleteCan't wait to try them! Love the cherry flavoring idea. My kids aren't fond of mint, but cherry? Perfect!
ReplyDeleteJaime these look and sound YUMMY!
ReplyDeleteI tried them, but the dough was too sticky to be able to roll in to a ball. I just made thr ound cookies. My son and husband both like them.
ReplyDeleteTraci B.
Traci,
ReplyDeleteThe texture seems to be giving people a hard time with these cookies! Glad they still tasted good.
~Jamie
So, I had a hard time with mine staying in a cute candy cane shape, they kind of just spread out all over the pan. I scooped them up and put them in a baggy...a few days later I took them to dinner at Grandma's to get rid of them. They were a huge hit (crumbs and all). They were still soft and yummy AND they still looked cute all mashed up! Everyone was asking for the recipe. :) Also, I had some extra dough left in the fridge, I rolled it into little balls and baked them (without cooking spray on the baking sheet this time) & they were a huge hit all over again! :)
ReplyDeleteThese are so good! I halved this recipe (guesstimated on the jello). I rolled both colors out flat, put them on top of each other and then rolled it up and sliced the big roll. I got some nice swirly cookies!
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