Holiday Candy Cane Cookies

These holiday cookies are a great treat to make with the kids and get you in the Christmas spirit. Many people do not realize that cookie dough can be colored to make a wide variety of colors for most any holiday season. Just a few drops of food coloring in your dough can make the color desired.

So for this you will need your cookie dough and some food coloring to get started. (Caution: Food color can stain skin and clothes, be sure that you wear old clothes and some gloves on your hands to protect your skin.) Start off by getting enough bowls for the different amount of colors you will be working with. Next begin the process by mixing the dough and the food color into the bowl start off with just a touch of food color to make sure you do not go to dark. You can always go darker from to light but not the other way around. Next kneed the dough thoroughly till you get the desired color you are looking for. Now take the dough out of the bowls and roll it into 12 inch by inch strips. You can use two pieces of wax paper here if you do not want to over saturate the cookies with to much flour which can dry them out a bit. Take each rope and conform it into a candy cane. Now you can make so many different colors, you can go with your traditional red and white, or a red and green, yellow and blue, whatever you want. After forming the candy canes bake in the oven for about 10 minutes or until brown. Hopefully you will enjoy these cookies as much as me and my children did. Enjoy.