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Christmas Sweet Cane Cookies {chewy & candy!}


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This candy and chewy Christmas Sweet Cane Cookie recipe is tailored from my award profitable Lemon Crinkle Cookies recipe. It’s the ever well-liked vacation model that’s chewy, minty and simply divine! My favourite strategy to get pleasure from a sweet cane!

candy cane cookies on a plate

Why You’ll Love Sweet Cane Cookies

These sweet cane sugar cookies have easy, on a regular basis elements (most that you have already got in your pantry!) to make delicate, chewy and scrumptious peppermint cookies. Good for the Christmas season as a result of this recipe makes use of peppermint sweet canes! YUM! They add a contact of vacation cheer to cookie platters and are a enjoyable and ornamental addition to your vacation events.

stacked cookies on a plate

Sweet Cane Cookies Suggestions and Methods

I really like a delicate, chewy and pepperminty cookie, particularly at Christmas. So, when you’ve got made a couple of of my Christmas cookie recipes earlier than, odds are you’ll like this recipe as written. Listed here are some ideas and tips to get you cookies that look similar to mine!

Baking Time. I exploit lighter coloured baking sheets, so the bake time relies on that. If utilizing a nonstick darker baking sheet, scale back baking time by about 2 minutes.

Peppermint. The addition of peppermint extract takes these to the following stage of festive! Attempt including a couple of drops of peppermint extract to the dough. Begin with 1/2 teaspoon and work up from there.

Spreading. In case your cookies are spreading an excessive amount of, it’s as a result of there isn’t sufficient flour. The butter to flour ratio is off…occurs lots with cookies as a result of everybody measures their flour a little bit otherwise. Attempt including in 1 tablespoon of flour and baking one cookie to see in case you get that signature cookie dough texture.

candy cane cookies on a tablescape

Substances Wanted for Sweet Cane Cookies

Right here is all the things you might want to make these cookies! Most are pantry staples that you simply most likely have already got!

Tips on how to Make Sweet Cane Cookies

It is a easy cookie dough with crushed peppermint candies combined in. For full recipe particulars, together with ingredient measurements and baking time see the printable recipe card down beneath. Right here is step-by-step what you’ll be able to anticipate when making this recipe:

Prep

Preheat your oven to 350° F. Spray gentle coloured cookie sheets with nonstick cooking spray, line with parchment paper or use silicone baking mat and put aside.

baking sheet

Crush Sweet Canes

Throw the sweet canes right into a plastic zip prime bag and bang them up with a rolling pin or mallet. I didn’t even unwrap the sweet canes. As soon as they’re crushed, you’ll be able to select the plastic wrappers. I had a couple of larger chunks of sweet cane, however for essentially the most half, these had been fairly small.

In a big bowl or bowl of a stand mixer, cream butter and granulated sugar collectively till gentle and fluffy. It is a tremendous necessary step for delicate cookies. Whip in vanilla extract and egg. Scrape sides and blend once more.

Measure out your baking powder, baking soda and salt and stir it into your flour. Excluding the powdered sugar, dump all of your dry elements into the bowl and blend till it’s simply integrated. Scrape sides of the bowl and blend once more briefly.

Add in Crushed Sweet Canes

Add within the crushed sweet canes. I don’t learn about you however I might eat this entire bowl of dough. Come to momma.

Type Into Balls + Roll in Powdered Sugar

Pour powdered sugar right into a separate bowl or massive plate. Roll a heaping teaspoon of dough right into a ball and roll in powdered sugar. Place on ready baking sheet and repeat with remaining dough.

Bake

Bake for Sep 11 minutes or till bottoms begins to BARELY golden brown. That is the important thing to their chewiness. For greatest outcomes, you need the skin of the cookie to look matte (not shiny) if you pull them out. Mine had been finished in 8 minutes on the nostril. Take away from oven and funky cookies about 3 minutes earlier than transferring to a wire rack to chill.

Storing Sweet Cane Cookies

Retailer cooled cookies in an hermetic container at room temperature for a couple of week. Clearly, the longer they sit, the much less recent they are going to be! Nothing a fast zap within the microwave can’t deal with although.

To Freeze: Place baked and cooled cookies right into a freezer protected, hermetic container with parchment paper separating the layers. Cookies will keep recent within the freezer for as much as 3 months. Permit to thaw on the counter.

FAQ About Sweet Cane Cookies

Why aren’t my cookies spreading?

Numerous you’ve got talked about to me that these cookies don’t unfold. This downside occurs as a result of there may be an excessive amount of flour in your cookie dough! 
Fluff up your flour, spoon it into your measuring cup after which stage the highest. That’s the right strategy to measure flour and the way I measured it for this recipe. So watch out when measuring and also you’ll have excellent Sweet Cane Cookies.

Why did my cookies unfold a lot?

A typical downside when making these cookies is that they flatten out method an excessive amount of! Why?
Butter.
This recipe requires softened butter, not melted butter. One of the best ways to get softened butter is to plan forward. A few hours earlier than you make these cookies set 1/2 cup of butter on the counter. Because it sits there may be will soften.
However if you’re in a pinch you’ll be able to microwave butter to melt it as a substitute. Microwave in 5-second intervals rotating your dice of butter every time. Please please please use warning when softening this manner. It could simply go from stable to melted in seconds! And in flip, your cookies will unfold method an excessive amount of.

Why is my dough so sticky?

For those who already used melted butter as a substitute of softened butter, and your sweet cane cookie dough is sticky don’t fear! You will have two choices to repair this.
Pop your dough within the fridge for half-hour to solidify the dough a bit.
OR
Add in small quantities of flour till your cookie dough comes collectively higher. Positively use my photograph of the cookie dough above to base your cookie dough off of.

Extra of the Finest Christmas Cookies to Bake!

I LOVED how these Christmas Sweet Cane Cookies turned out and hope they make it to your mouth quickly. These are nice so as to add to Christmas cookie platters, cookie exchanges or to depart out on Christmas Eve for Santa! No matter your vacation custom is, I hope you make these this vacation season! The printable recipe card is beneath! Have an ideal day, buddies! 🙂

For those who make this recipe, I might actually admire it in case you would give it a star ranking and depart your assessment within the feedback! When you have an image of your completed dish, publish it on Instagram utilizing the hashtag #laurenslatest and tagging me @laurens_latest.

candy cane cookies on a plate
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