Peppermint Cookie Lollipops Recipes

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Beat the butter and white sugar with an electric mixer in a large bowl until smooth. Beat egg into butter mixture until completely incorporated. Mix flour and salt into the butter mixture until just incorporated. Fold crushed candy canes into the batter, mixing just enough to evenly combine. Roll dough into balls 1 tablespoon at a time; arrange on baking sheets.
• Bake in the preheated oven until firm, 8 to 10 minutes. Allow cookies to cool on the baking sheet for 1 minute before removing to a wire rack to cool completely.
• Whisk confectioners' sugar and warm water together in a small bowl until you have a smooth icing. Dip top of each cookie in the icing, Top with additional crushed candy cane, if desired. Set aside to let the icing dry, at least 5 minutes.

Steps:

• Butter 10 assorted metal cookie cutters and place on a parchment-lined baking sheet; set aside. In a large heavy saucepan, combine the sugar, water, corn syrup and cream of tartar. Cook and stir over medium heat until sugar is dissolved. Bring to a boil. Cook, without stirring, until a candy thermometer reads 300° (hard-crack stage). , Remove from the heat. Stir in oil, keeping face away from mixture as odor is very strong. For each color of candy swirls, pour 1/4 cup sugar mixture into a ramekin or custard cup; tint red or green., Immediately pour remaining sugar mixture into prepared cookie cutters. Drizzle with colored mixtures as desired; cut through with a toothpick to swirl. Remove cutters just before lollipops are set; firmly press a lollipop stick into each. Sprinkle peppermint candies over tops if desired.

Steps:

• 1. Insert a lollipop stick into the center of each Oreo cookie. (I found it easier to take the top off of the cookies putting a small blob of the melted Candiquik on the side with icing, laid the lollipop stick on the blob and replaced the other wafer of the cookie on top. I put them in the freezer on a cookie sheet to harden them quicker.)
• 2. Melt Candiquik in microwavable bowl according to directions on the package,
• 3. Dip cookie lollipops into melted Candiquik. Allow excess coating to drip off. (I held the cookie lollipop by the stick and spooned the melted coating on and let the excess drip off. To me it was easier.) Place on waxed paper to dry.
• 4. After the coating is completely dry, use the remaining candy coating to pipe a swirl on the cookie. Sprinkle immediately with the red decorating sugar.

Steps:

• Position oven racks in the top and bottom thirds of the oven and preheat to 225 degrees F. Cut 2 pieces of parchment paper to fit 2 baking sheets. Using a 4-inch diameter cookie cutter, draw 6 circles on each piece of parchment, then flip each piece over onto a baking sheet marked-side down.
• Combine the cream of tartar, salt and egg whites in the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the whisk attachment. Whisk on medium speed until foamy, about 1 minute. Increase the speed to medium high and beat until thickened, about 1 minute more. Mix in the peppermint extract, then add the confectioners' sugar in batches about 1/4 cup at a time, beating until well incorporated after each addition. After the last addition, continue to beat until stiff, shiny peaks form, about 5 minutes.
• Fill a resealable plastic bag or piping bag with the meringue. Snip off the end or corner to make about a 1/2-inch-wide opening. Lay a lollipop stick down about 1 inch into each drawn circle and pipe the meringue lollipops onto the parchment circles over the sticks. Sprinkle the sanding sugar and silver sprinkles onto the piped meringue pops.
• Bake, rotating the baking sheets from front to back and top to bottom halfway through, until the meringue is dry and crispy, about 2 hours.

Steps:

• For the cookies: Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
• In a medium bowl sift together flour, cocoa powder, baking soda and salt. Set aside. In a mixer beat together the butter with the sugars until fluffy, about 2 minutes. Add eggs 1 at a time, beating until smooth after each addition and scraping the sides of the bowl as necessary. Add in the vanilla. On a low speed beat in the flour mixture a little at a time. Gently mix in chocolate chips.
• On an ungreased cookie sheet, drop teaspoons of the batter about 2 inches apart. Bake until just cracked on top, about 8 to10 minutes, rotating the pan halfway through the cooking time. Cool completely.
• For the glaze: In a small bowl mix together the sugar; mint extract and water until smooth. Transfer mixture to a medium resealable plastic bag and snip off the corner. Drizzle glaze over cooled cookies. Let cookies stand until set, about 10 minutes.

Steps:

• Crush 1/3 cup candy canes into fine powder using a blender or food processor, set aside. Crush the remainding 1 cup until coarse.
• Preheat oven to 375 F.
• Beat butter and brown and regular sugar in mixer until light and fluffy; beat in egg and vanilla.
• In separate bowl mix together flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt and pulverized candy canes. Stir into butter mixture using wooden spoon.
• Grease baking sheets or line with parchment paper.
• Drop drough by tablespoons onto baking sheets. Slide lollipop stick under bottom half of each cookie. Bake for 6 minute.
• Remove cookies from oven and sprinkle coarse candy cane over cookies, pressing gently into each cookie.
• Place back in oven for another 5-8 min or until golden.
• Let cool on baking sheet for 5 min and remove and cool completely on cooling rack.

Steps:

• In a large mixing bowl, beat the 2/3 cup butter and shortening with an electric mixer on medium to high speed for 30 seconds. Add the 1-1/2 cups sugar, baking powder, and salt. Beat until combined, scraping sides of bowl occasionally. Add the eggs and peppermint extract; beat until well comined. Beat or stir in the 4 cups flour. Using a wooden spoon, stir in the peppermint candies.
• Divide dough in half. Cover and chill about 3 hours or until dough is easy to handle.
• Meanwhile, in a medium mixing bowl beat 1/2 cup butter with an electric mixer on medium speed for 30 seconds. Add 1/2 cup sugar and beat until combined. With mixer on low speed, beat in half-and-half or light cream. Beat in 2 cups all-purpose flour until dough is smooth. Divide dough into portions. Tint dough with desired paste food coloring pastel pink or green suggested). Set aside.
• On a lightly floured surface, roll half of the chilled dough at a time to 1/4-inch thickness. Using a 4-inch round scalloped cookie cutter, cut out dough. Place cookies about 1 inch apart on an ungreased cookie sheet. Tuck a lollipop stick under the center of each cookie. Press dough down slightly so that the cookie bakes around the stick.
• Using a decorative bag fitted with a medium writing or star tip, pipe colored dough onto cutouts, making borders, designs, or pictures and/or writing messages.
• Bake in a 375 degree F oven for 8 to 10 minues or until edges are firm and bottoms are lightly browned. Cool on cookie sheet for 1 minute. Carefuly transfer cookies to a wire rack; cool. Makes about 24 (4-inch) cookies.