Name: Peppermint Candy Cookies
Ingredients: 1 c Butter; softened; 1/2 c Confectioner's sugar; 1 ts Vanilla; 2 1/2 c Flour, all-purpose; 1/2 c Walnuts; chopped; 1/4 lb Peppermint candy; crushed; 1/2 c Confectioner's sugar; 2 tb Cream cheese; softened; 1 ts Milk; 1 dr Red food coloring; 1/2 c Confectioner's sugar; 3 tb Candy mixture; see above

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CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Grains, Dairy		Christmas, Cookies and	36	Servings

INGREDIENTS

1	c	Butter; softened
1/2	c	Confectioner's sugar
1	ts	Vanilla
2 1/2	c	Flour, all-purpose
1/2	c	Walnuts; chopped
1/4	lb	Peppermint candy; crushed
1/2	c	Confectioner's sugar
2	tb	Cream cheese; softened
1	ts	Milk
1	dr	Red food coloring
1/2	c	Confectioner's sugar
3	tb	Candy mixture; see above

INSTRUCTIONS

CANDY MIXTURE
FILLING
Cream the butter, sugar and vanilla together until fluffy.  Add the flour
and walnuts and blend to form dough.  Wrap in plastic wrap and chill for 1
hour.
Candy mixture: In a small bowl combine both ingredients.  Set aside. Three
tablespoons of this mixture is used in the filling and the remainder is
used to garnish the cookies.
The filling: In a bowl blend together the cream cheese, milk, food coloring
and the conf. sugar until smooth.  Blend in 3 T of the cnady mixture.
Remove the dough from the refrigerator and for each cookie pinch off a
rounded teaspoon of the dough.  Form into a ball and shape around your
thumb to make a little compartment in the middle. Place about 1/4 teaspoon
of the cream cheese filling in the depression. Pinch the dough back
together and roll it back into a ball. Repeat the process with the
remaining dough and filling. Place the balls on a nonstick cookie sheet.
Bake in a preheated 350 oven for 10-12 minutes. Do not brown.
Remove cookies to a cooling rack.  To garnish, roll the cooled cookies in
the remaining candy mixture.
Recipe By     : Frugal Gourmet's Christmas
Posted to MC-Recipe Digest V1 #268
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 20:14:11 -0500 (EST)
From: Sue <suechef@sover.net>

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