Category: Desserts
Cuisine: North-American, World
Yields:
40 Servings
Difficulty: Medium
Prep Time: 3 Hr
Cook Time:
10 Mins
Total Time:
3 Hr 10 Mins
A hint of mint flavour and the green colour make these cookies look very festive. A must for the Holiday season.
Ingredients
Instructions
- Mix sugar and softened butter well until it becomes creamy, light and fluffy.
- Add in the vanilla and peppermint extract and mix.
- Sift flour with salt and add in batches on low speed until everything blends well.
- Take out the cookie dough from the mixer bowl and divide the contents into equal halves.
- Mix the green food colouring to one half, kneading it until the colour is well blended and form into a smooth ball.
- Knead out the remaining dough into a ball without any colour.
- Place both the balls onto plastic or wax paper and roll out each into a rectangle about 9 inch long and 6 inch wide.
- Cut each of the rolled rectangles into half lengthwise. So you now have two plain rectangles and two green ones.
- Now carefully place one plain rectangle on top of the green rectangle and press along edges and sides. Roll these lengthwise into a long tight roll and wrap it in wax or plastic wrap. Repeat with the other halves too.
- Now place both these rolls in the refrigerator for at least three hours.
- Before baking, preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Line 2 cookie sheets with parchment.
- Remove the wrap and cut out thick slices from the cookie rolls and place them on the cookie sheet a little apart. Bake these in the oven for 10 minutes. Cool and store them in air tight containers. Keeps well for about 2 weeks.
Notes
You can use red food colouring to the half the batch of cookies to make it more festive :)