Mint Swirl Lollipop Cookies Food

SWIRLED MINT COOKIES

Steps:

• In a large bowl, cream butters and 3/4 cup sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in egg and extracts. Combine the flour, baking powder and salt; gradually add to creamed mixture and mix well. , Divide dough into thirds. Stir red food coloring into 1 portion of dough; stir green food coloring into another portion. Leave remaining dough plain. Cover and refrigerate for at least 1 hour. , Divide each portion of dough into 4 equal pieces. Roll each piece into a 12-in. rope. Place a red, a green and a plain rope next to each other. Cut through all 3 ropes at 1-in. intervals, forming sets of 3 differently colored doughs. Repeat., Roll each set of doughs into a ball; place balls 3 in. apart on ungreased baking sheets. Flatten to 1/8-in. thickness with a glass dipped in remaining sugar. Bake at 375° for 8-10 minutes or until bottoms are lightly browned. Remove to wire racks to cool.

HOLIDAY SWIRLED SUGAR COOKIES

Steps:

• For the cookies: Whisk together the flour, baking powder and salt in a medium bowl. Beat the butter and granulated sugar with an electric mixer on medium speed in a large bowl until light and fluffy, about 4 minutes. Increase the mixer speed to medium high, add the vanilla and egg and beat until incorporated. Reduce the speed to low, add the flour mixture in 2 batches and beat until just combined. Shape the dough into a disk. Wrap and refrigerate until firm, about 1 hour.
• Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper. Generously dust a work surface with confectioners' sugar. Roll out the dough to a thickness of 1/2 inch, dusting with more confectioners' sugar as needed. (Return the dough to the refrigerator if it gets too soft.) Cut out shapes with a 2-inch round cookie cutter and arrange 2 inches apart on the prepared baking sheets. Reroll the scraps and cut out more cookies. Refrigerate the cookies until firm, about 1 hour.
• Position racks in the upper and lower thirds of the oven and preheat to 350 degrees F. Bake the cookies, rotating the pans halfway through, until lightly browned around the edges, 9 to 11 minutes. Let cool completely on the baking sheets.
• For the royal icing: Combine the confectioners' sugar and meringue powder in a large bowl. Add 7 tablespoons water and beat with an electric mixer on medium-high speed until soft glossy peaks form, adding up to 8 tablespoons water if necessary to make a smooth icing that thickly coats the back of a spoon.
• Line a baking sheet with parchment and set a cooling rack on top.
• Put 1/4 cup icing into each of 2 small bowls. Add 9 drops red food coloring to one bowl and stir until evenly combined. Add 2 drops green food coloring to the second bowl and stir until evenly combined. Pour the remaining white icing into a clean rimmed baking sheet and spread or shake to evenly coat it. Drizzle the red icing all over the white, then drizzle the green icing over both. One at a time, put the cookies face-side down in the baking sheet icing. Take the cookies out one at a time, shaking gently to let excess icing drip off, and place right-side up on the prepared cooling rack. Decorate with edible glitter or sprinkles if desired. Let the icing harden completely before serving, about 1 hour.

MINT-SWIRL LOLLIPOP COOKIES

Steps:

• Heat oven to 375°F. In large bowl, stir cookie mix, butter, flour, eggs and mint extract with spoon until soft dough forms. Divide dough in half. Roll one portion between 2 sheets of waxed paper into 13x10 1/2-inch rectangle. Remove top sheet of waxed paper.
• To remaining half of dough, add food color; mix until uniform in color. Shape into a ball. Roll between 2 sheets of waxed paper into 13x10 1/2-inch rectangle. Remove top sheet of waxed paper; invert colored dough onto plain dough. Peel off top sheet of waxed paper. Trim dough to 11x9-inch rectangle. Tightly roll into a log, starting at long side and using bottom sheet of waxed paper as a guide.
• Roll cookie log in coarse sugar; cut into 1/2-inch slices. On ungreased cookie sheet, place slices 2 inches apart.
• Bake 8 to 10 minutes or until edges are lightly browned. Immediately insert 1 lollipop stick halfway into each cookie. With spatula, carefully remove cookies from cookie sheet to cooling rack. Cool completely, about 20 minutes.

CHOCOLATE PEPPERMINT PINWHEEL COOKIES

Steps:

• Divide the dough in half and add chocolate and vanilla to 1 half and incorporate with hands. Add egg yolk, peppermint extract, and crushed candy to other half of dough and incorporate with hands. Cover both with plastic and chill for approximately 5 minutes. Roll out doughs separately to approximately 1/4-inch thickness. Place peppermint dough on top of chocolate and press together around the edges. Using waxed paper or flexible cutting board underneath, roll dough into log. Wrap in waxed paper and refrigerate for 2 hours.
• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
• Remove dough from the refrigerator and cut into 1/2-inch slices. Place cookies 1-inch apart on greased baking sheet, parchment, or silicone baking mat and bake for 12 to 13 minutes, rotating the pan halfway through cooking time. Remove from oven and let sit on baking sheet for 2 minutes, then move to a wire rack to cool completely. Store in an airtight container for up to 1 week.
• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• 3/4 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup unsalted butter, softened
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 egg, beaten
• 1 tablespoon milk
• Powdered sugar, for rolling out dough
• Sift together flour, baking powder, and salt. Set aside. Place butter and sugar in large bowl of electric stand mixer and beat until light in color. Add egg and milk and beat to combine. Put mixer on low speed, gradually add flour, and beat until mixture pulls away from the side of the bowl. Divide the dough in half, wrap in waxed paper, and refrigerate for 2 hours.

PEPPERMINT MERINGUES

Steps:

• Position oven racks in the top and bottom thirds of the oven and preheat to 250 degrees F. Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper.
• Beat the egg whites and salt with an electric mixer on medium-high speed in a large bowl until foamy. Add the cream of tartar and continue to beat until soft peaks form. While beating, add the sugar 1 tablespoon at a time. Continue to beat until stiff peaks form. Beat in the peppermint.
• Fold the top of a pastry bag fitted with a round tip over and down a few inches. Dip a paintbrush in the food coloring. Starting inside the pastry tip, brush a stroke of food coloring from the tip to the top of the bag. Repeat with 3 more evenly spaced strokes. Fill the bag with the meringue; try to spoon it directly into the center so as not to smudge the food coloring (though some smudging is inevitable). Pipe 1-inch-diameter mounds of meringue spaced 1 inch apart onto the prepared baking sheets.
• Bake until the meringues are no longer glossy and feel light and dry when picked up, about 1 hour. Open the oven for a few minutes, then turn it off and shut the door. Leave the meringues in the oven until they are completely dry inside, about 2 hours. The meringues can be stored in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 2 days.

CHOCOLATE PEPPERMINT COOKIES

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.

HALLOWEEN LOLLIPOP SWIRLS

Steps:

• In large bowl, stir cookie mix, flour, butter and eggs until dough forms. Stir in almond extract and lemon peel. Divide dough into thirds. Knead purple food color into 1 portion, orange food color into second portion and black food color into third portion. Wrap in plastic wrap; refrigerate 1 hour.
• Heat oven to 350°F. Spray cookie sheet with cooking spray. Shape each color of dough into 15 (1- to 1 1/2-inch) balls. Roll each ball into 10-inch rope. Twist 1 rope of each color together; coil rope into 3-inch round. On cookie sheet, place rounds 2 inches apart. Insert lollipop stick into bottom of each cookie.
• Bake 14 to 15 minutes or until set. Cool 5 minutes; remove from cookie sheet to cooling rack.

MINT SWIRL BROWNIES

Steps:

• Cream together cream cheese, butter and sugar, beat in eggs.
• Stir together flour, baking powder, and salt; stir into creamed mixture.
• Spoon half of the batter into another bowl; stir in nuts and chocolate.
• Drop chocolate batter from tablespoon checkerbord fashion into greased 9X9X2 inch baking pan.
• To remaining batter, stir in extrast and food coloring.
• spoon green batter into open spaces in baking pan.
• Swirl with spatula to marble; do not over stir.
• Bake at 350 degrees for 15 to 20 minutes.
• Cool.
• Glaze: Melt chocolate and butter over low heat; stir constantly.
• Remove from heat; stir in powder sugar and vinilla till crumbly.
• Blend in enough boiling water till pouring consistency.
• Pour glaze over top and cut into bars.