These are cookies I made last Christmas. They came out beautifully and had a wonderful light peppermint taste.
I love baking dozens of cookies for Christmas, and you HAVE TO have cookies for Santa! Along with plenty for friends and family. :-) What would the holidays be without tons of unhealthy, delicious, indulgent baked goods to stuff yourself with?
I made the dough, split it in half and colored half of it with a few drops of red food coloring. Made 2 "snakes" as my kids called them, one of each color, and twisted them together. The shortbread type dough came apart easily so they had to be handled carefully. They took a little time to form them all but they look so pretty!
I baked them on parchment paper. I left the first batch in the oven too long and they turned brown and too hard so after that I watched very carefully and pulled them as soon as they turned golden on the bottom edges.
This is one of those projects where you could talk to the kids about how a candy cane represents a shepherd's crook or a J for Jesus and how the red can represent Christ's blood and the white is purity. There are many moments that can be good opportunities to talk to kids about Christianity, I especially like to teach them when they're having fun.
I don't have the recipe I used for this right now, but as soon as I find it I'll add it to this post. :~)
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