Candy Cane Crinkles

Name: Candy Cane Crinkles
Yield: 2 dozen
Ingredients: 3 whole candy canes (crushed); ½ cups Butter (Softened); 1 cup Granulated Sugar; ½ teaspoons Vanilla Extract; 1 whole Egg; ¼ teaspoons Salt; ¼ teaspoons Baking Powder; ⅛ teaspoons Baking Soda; 1-½ cup All-purpose Flour; ½ cups Powdered Sugar

19 · Dec 15, 2011

Once upon a time when I was 16, I dated a boy. He was cute, sweet and semi-popular. He came from a big family that was friends with my big family. We dated a while. My Dad joked with his Dad about his son marrying his daughter. *awkward* My sisters and I were friends with his sisters and his Mom was THE.BEST.COOK. Forreals.

Her pulled pork is the bomb.com. {I only had it once, but that one time was enough to be a life changer.} And her rolls are legendary in the Ottawa area. If I got ahold of the recipe, there’s no telling what I would do. Actually, I’d probably have a stroke.

So, this relationship progresses like any high school first love relationship would progress…and then I dump him.

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Then I realize I was an idiot and try to get him back for the next few months…we get back together.

And then I dump him again….through his sister! I was a meanie…what can I say? I believe my exact words were “tell your brother to consider himself dumped!” {Totally mean, right?} I was never one to be dumped. I always did the dumping.

I feel really great about this decision, except for the fact that I’ve pretty much cut all my ties to ever getting that roll recipe.

Curses!

So, time goes on as it usually does and I stay in touch with his sisters. Some of them end up going to the University I went to, I see them around, some of them came to my baby shower, etc. etc.

WELL, just the other day, one of these sisters sent me a message saying that her Mom adapted my Lemon Crinkle Cookie recipe, except she replaced the lemon with candy canes. Umm….what? I’m sorry….umm…WHAT? My jaw hit the floor because:

1. YOUR Mom made MY recipe?

2. Your Mom maybe reads my blog?! Really? Am I being punked? {Hi Lorna! :)}

3. Candy canes in place of lemon? Brilliant!

So, I had to try it out for myself and of course these cookies were just amazing. The Lemon Crinkles won me a contest a few months back, so I was happy to tweak this recipe to turn this pretty simple recipe into something extra special for the holidays.

And just FYI, me and this boy are happily married {to other people} and this is all water under the bridge now. No hard feelings! 🙂

To make these amazingly delicious and easy cookies, you will need the following:

I like to start by crushing my candy canes. Throw them into a plastic ziploc bag and bang them up with a rolling pin. I don’t even unwrap the candy canes either. Once they’re crushed, you can pick out the plastic wrappers. Because I’m lazy. Oh yeah.

Hello my pretties! I had a few bigger chunks of candy cane, but for the most part these were pretty small.

Ok, now lets get started with the cookie dough. Cream some buttuh and shugah togethah.

Add in an egg…

…and some vanilla.

Let the mixer whip this up so it’s super light and fluffy. My KitchenAid does an amazazazing job at this.

Measure out your baking powder, baking soda and salt–

and stir it into your flour.

Dump all your dry ingredients into the bowl and stir it around until it’s just incorporated.

Last thing to do is add in your crushed candy canes.

I don’t know about you but I could eat this whole bowl of dough. Come to momma.

Once I dismounted the bowl from the mixer, a little girl showed up in my kitchen with her “green” {OXO spatula} and requested a taste test. She was so cute that I agreed and then kept her for free child labor.

To form these sweet lil things, start with a tablespoon of dough.

Roll it into a ball…

…and roll that ball in powdered sugar. It’s not rocket science, people! Super simple stuff.

A great job for little hands.

P.S.–> Expect a mess.

Once you have a tray full, pop those babies into a 350 degree oven and let ’em bake. NOT TOO LONG! The key to these is their chewiness. You want the outside of the cookie to look matte {not shiny} when you pull them out. Mine were done in 8 minutes on the nose.

See? Not shiny and barely golden {if that} around the edges.

Cool them off and serve them up!

I LOVED these and hope they make it to your mouth soon. 🙂

Products I used in this recipe:

Beanilla vanilla

Chicago Metallics cookie sheets and cooling racks

KitchenAid 7-qt. Stand Mixer

OXO pop top storage containers, measuring cups, measuring spoons, spatulas

Le Creuset spatulas

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