Candy Cane Cookies Recipe
2 c Butter
1 1/2 c Sugar
4 Egg yolks
2 ts Vanilla
4 1/2 c Unbleached flour
1/2 ts Salt
3 tb Peppermint candy
Red food colouring

Cream together butter and sugar. Add egg yolks and vanilla and mix well. Sift flour and salt together and beat into butter mixture until well mixed. When ready, divide dough in half. To one half, add 1/2 ts. red food colouring. Using about a tablespoon of dough, roll a 4" strip of each colour (no fatter than a pencil). Place the two coloured rolls side-by-side and press lightly together. Gently twist like a rope and place on an ungreased cookie sheet 1" apart. Curve the top like a candy cane and bake in a pre-heated oven at 350 F. for about 15 minutes; do not brown.  Sprinkle with crushed peppermint candy before cool. Note: Try taking each tablespoon of cookie dough and roll in hands to form rough cylinder. Then put on flat surface vertically. Using fingers and palm in same direction, gently roll left and right until the size of a pencil.