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4-Ingredient Candy Cane Cookies

Pillsbury Kitchens
Updated Oct 20, 2021
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Candy cane cookies are a must-make treat for the holiday season, and now they're easier to make than ever before! Our recipe comes together with four simple ingredients, and they're delish. Make our candy cane Christmas cookies with your family this season!

4-Ingredient Candy Cane Cookies

  • Prep Time 35 min
  • Total 1 hr 10 min
  • Ingredients 5
  • Servings 36
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Ingredients

Instructions

  • Step 
    1
    Heat oven to 350°F.
  • Step 
    2
    In medium bowl, crumble dough; stir or knead in flour and peppermint extract. (DO NOT EAT RAW COOKIE DOUGH AFTER COMBINING WITH FLOUR.) Divide dough into 2 portions. Place 1 portion in small bowl; add food color. Stir or knead until well blended.
  • Step 
    3
    Roll scant tablespoonfuls of each color of dough into 1 1/2-inch balls. On floured surface, arrange alternating white and red dough balls, in a row 4 across,. Dough balls should be just touching together. Repeat with remaining dough to make additional rows and create a large rectangle. Roll dough 1/4 inch thick.
  • Step 
    4
    Cut with floured 2 1/2- to 3-inch cane-shaped cookie cutter; place 1 inch apart on ungreased cookie sheets. Reroll dough, and cut additional cookies. Sprinkle with sparkling sugar.
  • Step 
    5
    Bake 8 to 9 minutes or until cookies are set and edges just begin to brown. Cool 2 minutes; remove from cookie sheets. Cool completely, about 10 minutes.

Nutrition

60 Calories
2g Total Fat
0g Protein
9g Total Carbohydrate
4g Sugars

Tips from the

Pillsbury Kitchens

  • tip 1
    Wearing food-safe plastic gloves makes mixing food color in the cookie dough easier and protects hands from staining! Single-use plastic gloves can be found at most large retailers.
  • tip 2
    As you reroll the dough, it will become more marbled with the colors becoming more muted, but just as pretty.
  • tip 3
    You can use any of your favorite holiday cookie cutters with this dough.
  • tip 4
    For best results, bake cookies one sheet at a time in center of oven.
  • tip 5
    These candy cane sugar cookies are lovely with their freeform colors and a sprinkle of sparkling sugar, but you can outline the candy canes with frosting around the edges of the cookies, too.
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