From Recipe4Living
Makes 20 to 30 cookies
Ingredients
2 C. butter
1 1/2 C. sugar
4 single egg yolks
2 tsp. vanilla
4 1/2 C. unbleached flour
1/2 tsp. salt
3 Tbs. peppermint candy
1 red food coloring
Directions
1. Cream together butter and sugar. Add egg yolks and vanilla and mix well. Sift flour and salt together and beat into butter mixture until well mixed. When ready, divide dough in half. To one half, add 1/2 tsp. red food coloring. Using about a Tbs. of dough, roll a 4″ strip of each color (no fatter than a pencil). Place the two colored rolls side-by-side and press lightly together. Gently twist like a rope and place on an ungreased cookie sheet 1″ apart. Curve the top like a candy cane and bake in a pre-heated oven at 350 degrees for about 15 minutes; do not brown. Sprinkle with crushed peppermint candy before cool.
