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These sweet and chewy Candy Cane Cookies are adapted from my Lemon Crinkle Cookies recipe. It’s the ever popular holiday version that is chewy, minty and just divine! My favorite way to enjoy a candy cane!
Candy Cane Cookies-Tips and Tricks
I love a soft, chewy and pepperminty cookie, especially at Christmas. So, if you have made a few of my Christmas cookie recipes before, odds are you will like this recipe as written. Here are some tips and tricks to get you cookies that look just like mine!
Baking Time. If using a nonstick darker baking tray, reduce baking time by about 2 minutes.
Peppermint. Want even more minty flavor? Try adding a few drops of peppermint extract to the dough. Start with 1/2 teaspoon and work up from there.
Spreading. If your cookies are spreading too much, it’s because there isn’t enough flour. (The butter to flour ratio is off…happens a lot with cookies because everyone measures their flour a little differently.) Try adding in 1 tablespoon of flour and baking one cookie to see if you get that signature cookie dough texture.
How to Make Candy Cane Cookies
This Candy Cane Cookie Recipe uses everyday ingredients to make soft, chewy and delicious cookies. Perfect for the Christmas season because this recipe uses candy canes! YUM! For full recipe details, including ingredient measurements and baking time see the printable recipe card down below.
Prep
Preheat your oven. Grease light colored baking sheets with nonstick cooking spray, line with parchment paper or use silicone baking mat and set aside.
Crush Candy Canes
Throw the candy canes into a plastic Ziploc bag and bang them up with a rolling pin. I didn’t even unwrap the candy canes either. Once they’re crushed, you can pick out the plastic wrappers. I had a few bigger chunks of candy cane, but for the most part, these were pretty small.
Make Candy Cane Cookie Dough
Cream butter and sugar together until light and fluffy. This is a super important step for soft cookies. Whip in vanilla and egg. Scrape sides and mix again. Measure out your baking powder, baking soda, and salt and stir it into your flour. Excluding the powdered sugar, dump all your dry ingredients into the bowl and mix until it’s just incorporated. Scrape sides of the bowl and mix again briefly.
Add in Crushed Candy Canes
Add in the crushed candy canes. I don’t know about you but I could eat this whole bowl of dough. Come to momma.
Form Into Balls + Roll in Powdered Sugar
Pour powdered sugar onto a large plate. Roll a heaping teaspoon of dough into a ball and roll in powdered sugar. Place on a baking sheet and repeat with remaining dough.
Bake
Pop those babies into the oven and let them bake. NOT TOO LONG! The key to this 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.
Storing
Store cooled cookies in an airtight container at room temperature for about a week. Obviously, the longer they sit, the less fresh they will be! Nothing a quick zap in the microwave can’t handle though.
To Freeze: Place baked and cooled cookies into a freezer safe, airtight container with parchment paper separating the layers. Cookies will stay fresh in the freezer for up to 3 months.
More Christmas Cookies to Bake!
- Triple Chocolate Candy Cane Cookies
- Chewy Chocolate Fudge Cookies with Peppermint Glaze
- Chocolate Mint Cookies
- Jumbo Double Chocolate Candy Cane Kiss Cookies
I LOVED these Candy Cane Cookies and hope they make it to your mouth soon. 🙂 Printable recipe card below!
Candy Cane Cookies
Ingredients
- 3 candy canes crushed (1/4 cup)
- 1/2 cup butter softened
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 egg
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/4 tsp baking powder
- 1/8 tsp baking soda
- 1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
- 1/2 cup powdered sugar
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350° F. Grease light colored baking sheets with nonstick cooking spray, line with parchment paper or use silicone baking mat and set aside.
- Place candy canes into a plastic food storage bag and crush using a rolling pin. Set aside.
- In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar together until light and fluffy. Whip in vanilla and egg. Scrape sides and mix again. Stir all dry ingredients together in a small bowl and then in pour into the mixer and slowly mix until just combined, excluding the powdered sugar. Scrape sides of the bowl and mix again briefly. Stir in crushed candy canes.
- Pour powdered sugar onto a large plate. Roll a heaping teaspoon of dough into a ball and roll in powdered sugar. Place on the baking sheet and repeat with remaining dough.
- Bake for 9-11 minutes or until bottoms begins to barely brown and cookies look matte (not melty or shiny). Remove from oven and cool cookies about 3 minutes before transferring to a cooling rack.
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Thank you so much for the recipe. It was a huge hit, I can’t wait to try the lemon version. I’m post a link to you 🙂
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Candy cane crinkles, yum yum!!!!
These sound so good and easy. I can that!! Lol
But I dont have a mixer could I mix it by hand?
Definitely, you can mix by hand. I’ve never had a mixer but once borrowed from a friend for a year and I know that I can even mix things for 3-5 minutes. Younger people to take turns mixing is great when it’s longer! 🙂 Cookies are the easiest thing to mix by hand.
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Yum, Lauren. These cookies are delicious. And I never thought of using the rolling pin to pound the candy canes. Duh. I used to roll the pin over the ziploc bag and it took forever, not to mention the shards of candy would cut the bag and start leaking out. Thanks for a great recipe.
I popped my candy Canes in the food processor. The cookies were lovely, soft, chewy. We also did a thumb print in the middle and sprinkled the candy cane dust in the middle…..so cute and nice
Wow these cookies are awesome! My leftover candy canes were green and red so they came out super festive! Not everyone in my family likes peppermint though so I also did a batch with crushed up Werthers in them….Double WOW! I have to freeze them so I don’t gain ten pounds before Christmas time 🙂 thanks for the recipe! Will add this to the annual mix!
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So excited to try these!! 🙂
Delicious! I made these today and they were really easy to make and tasted great. I gave some to my mom and she said that they were the best cookie she had ever eaten.
Hi Lauren, I made these cookies for the first time today, and they are divine. So easy to make, beautiful to look at, and absolutely delicious. I quadrupled the recipe to bring to a cookie swap tonight. Thank you!
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Okay…these were great! BUT, I have to share this. I was low on butter. So…I used shortening. I know people think I am a crappy baker for this. However, in my defense…I always have shortening and with all the great mint flavor dominating this cookie it was still delicious.
I make a cookie very similar to this, but along with the peppermint I add WHITE CHOCOLATE CHIPS! It is really, really good!
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ahh i’m regretting using up all of my candy canes this weekend! great story and great recipe 🙂
These are sooo good! and easy too. A permanent addition to my Christmas cookie list! Thanks 🙂
Those look amazing!!!!!! I love that the recipe is really easy and includes things that I always have on hand! Mmmmmm! I am going to make this one!
Love this idea and the quick cooking time so much I linked to you on my blog for my holiday madness round up! Would love it if you checked it out!
http://www.fromthefirstbite.com/2011/12/last-minute-holiday-madness.html
xo
Wow, will have to make these this weekend. But now that you know she reads your blog, you can definitely work on getting the roll recipe…and ….share it with us=) Thanks for a great story and wonderful recipe!
ouch – what a way to be dumped 🙂 although, i have some stories that are probably worse.
these cookies look great!
o.m.g. these look soooo good. seriously, love how they look chewy…and the color of the cookie looks so delish. Also, your little one is just adorable. So love your pics too. great post.
I am TOTALLY making these!
Do have 1 question what is the purpose of Baking Soda in the cookies?
Totally n000b question but I’ve wondered cause I’ve made cookies without the baking soda before and they turned out fine.
Interesting read…I couldn’t stop reading to know how it ends :). YUMMY cookies…you have a cute little helper!!
Love peppermint! These look so good, and your daughter is a doll!
I’ll take three! Peppermint anything is my weakness.
Oh my! These sound wonderful. Unfortunately, my baking list is set for the rest of the Christmas season, but these will be on my list for next year. How brilliant is a candy cane cookies?
P.S. What a beautiful little girl!!
That story cracked me up! And I can’t wait to make these.
Lauren, or Lauren’s ex’s mom: GENIUS! I am making these! 🙂
these look seriously perfect. love.
Hahah great story and recipe! To cute 😀
Crinkle cookies make me smile. And these are holiday-happy too! 🙂
I LOVE chewy cookies. I’m pretty sure I’m making these tonight. Yummy.
these look so great!! I love that someone’s mom is reading your blog and adapting your recipes…before you even 🙂 That’s pretty cool…I dont think my mom reads my blog and would probably laugh at it. haha!
I saw your donuts on the front page of FG and on Tasty Kitchen..congrats. Now I want these cookies and donuts!
Remind me to tell you sometime about how I dumped your brother-in-law on Christmas Eve. at age 12. We love this story. 😉
That is hilarious. You were quite the little heartbreaker it seems! I love her idea of swapping lemon for candy canes! Maybe you can get that roll recipe afterall…
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Ohhhh, awkward first loves. Gotta love ’em.
I love how she adapted your recipe, talk about a great twist on a classic!
Oh those pictures of your daughter helping are just the cutest thing ever!
Ha, your story cracked me up! Your daughter is beautiful, and these cookies look AMAZING! Pinning–might have to squeeze these in this year.
AWW~ Love this post! Your daughter is adorable! {and so are those cookies!!} 🙂
ok, i’m bookmarking this because i’m SO making this on sunday when i make my holiday cookies for work — this is awesome!! thank you 🙂 🙂 your daughter is the cutest thing ever! i really hope i have a daughter so i can cook with her 🙂
With Christmas right around the corner when I saw these, I knew I needed to put them on the list this year! We make so many cookies at Christmas….kind of a tradition. The tradition being gaining an obligatory 5 lbs 😉 We are expecting number 4 (a little boy as well) on Jan. 1st, so the kids and I will be baking away early this year and freezing so we can enjoy baby time when he arrives….and be able to pull out a quick treat when we want! Thank you for all your amazing recipes!
Oh! How perfect. I have a cookie exchange TONIGHT and I was still debating over what to make. This will be it. Yay!! Thanks for solving my DEEE-lema!
Ok – so I made these and I’m ready for my cookie swap tonight, I just have to say,
HOLY-NEW-FAVORITE-COOKIE-BATMAN!!! These are DEE-lish!!! They will be a part of every Christmas from here on out! Thanks to you and your x-boyfriend’s mom 😉 !
Good straight forward cookie for a guy to make. Great way to use up those left over candy canes too.. Thanks!