Cream Cheese Candy Cane Cookies- Pillsbury

Submitted by Misti_Country_Girl

"From Pillsbury. Uses a cake mix, sounds super easy!"

 

• Ready In: 44mins
• Ingredients: 5
• Yields: 3 dozen

ingredients

• 1⁄4 cup butter, softened
• 3 ounces cream cheese, softened
• 1 egg
• 1 (18 1/4 ounce) pillsbury white cake mix
• 1⁄4 teaspoon red gel food coloring or 1/4 teaspoon food coloring

directions

1. Preheat oven to 350.
2. In large bowl, combine butter, cream cheese, egg; blend well.
3. Add cake mix; mix until well blended.
4. Divide dough in half.
5. Add coloring to half of dough; blend well for even red color.
6. For each cookie, measure 1 teaspoon white and 1 teaspoon red dough.
7. Roll out each into 4 inch ropes.
8. Place ropes side by side.
9. Lightly roll together; twist.
10. Place 2 inches apart on ungreased cookie sheet; shape each to resemble a candy cane.
11. Bake at 350 for 7 to 9 minutes.
12. Immediately remove from cookie sheets.

Reviews

[Funandsweet623]

These taste wonderful! I made them last year and forgot to reate them. I have to agree with Heather though they are very labor intensive because the dough (no matter how long I cooled it) was so moist and sticky forever to form, and I ended up making huge cookies jsut to get them made.

 

[Heather ND]

I made these for a Christmas cookie exchange at work. I really like the idea of these. The dough was impossible to roll out however. It was way to moist and just wouldn't work. I ended up just rolling the dough into a cookie sheet and using cut out of candy canes (they wouldn't transfer from the table to the cookie sheet without falling apart). I sprinkled crushed peppermint and sugar on the top of them. They tasted great, just didn't turn out the way that I wanted them to.

 

[Wyo_Krista_Cooks]

This is my son's favorite Christmas cookie. He asked me today if we were going to make them this year and I thought it was sweet that he remembered them but I had NO IDEA where I had put the recipe. SO THANKS for posting. If I could only be so organized :)