Recipe - Peppermint Candy Cookies

1 cup Butter; softened
One half cup Confectioner's sugar
1 teaspoon Vanilla
2 One half cup Flour, allpurpose
One half cup Walnuts; chopped

CANDY MIXTURE
One fourth pound Peppermint candy; crushed
One half cup Confectioner's sugar

FILLING
2 tablespoon Cream cheese; softened
1 teaspoon Milk
1 dr Red food coloring
One half cup Confectioner's sugar
3 tablespoon Candy mixture; see above

Cream the butter, sugar and vanilla together until fluffy. Add the flour
and walnuts and blend to form dough. Wrap in plastic wrap and chill for 1
hour.

Candy mixture: In a small bowl combine both ingredients. Set aside. Three
tablespoons of this mixture is used in the filling and the remainder is
used to garnish the cookies.

The filling: In a bowl blend together the cream cheese, milk, food coloring
and the conf. sugar until smooth. Blend in 3 T of the cnady mixture.

Remove the dough from the refrigerator and for each cookie pinch off a
rounded teaspoon of the dough. Form into a ball and shape around your
thumb to make a little compartment in the middle. Place about One fourth teaspoon
of the cream cheese filling in the depression. Pinch the dough back
together and roll it back into a ball. Repeat the process with the
remaining dough and filling. Place the balls on a nonstick cookie sheet.
Bake in a preheated 350 oven for 1012 minutes. Do not brown.

Remove cookies to a cooling rack. To garnish, roll the cooled cookies in
the remaining candy mixture.
Recipe By : Frugal Gourmet's Christmas

Posted to MCRecipe Digest V1 #268

Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 20:14:11 0500 (EST)

From: Sue suechef@sover.net