Aunt Claudia’s Candy Cane Cookies

A cherished family tradition at my house

Ingredients

For Cookies

1 cup softened butter

½ c white sugar

1 egg

3 tsp vanilla

3 cups flour

1 tsp bake powder

For glaze

3 plus cups confectioner’s sugar

2 T butter

1-2 drops vanilla

Milk or cream

3 large tsp cinnamon, and

Cinnamon oil if you can

15 drops of red food color for glaze

Method for Cookies

Preheat oven to 375

Cream butter with sugar

Add in egg, beat until fluffy

Add vanilla

In a separate bowl, measure out dry ingredients.

Pour into creamed ingredients and mix.

Grease several cookie sheets

Take dough, by bits and shape into canes about finger thickness and index card length.

Bake one sheet at a time for 7-10 minutes.

Remove when cookie edges are golden

Method for Glaze

Mix all glaze ingredients, except for dye and cinnamon using milk or cream to get right consistency. Reserve about one third for piping the stripes.

Spread rest over cooled cookies.

Add cinnamon and coloring to the reserved icing. Use that to make

Stripes on the cookie with an icing tube.