astray recipes: Peppermint snowballs

Categories: Cookies
Yield: 6 Servings

Measure	Ingredient
1 cup	Butter or margarine
½ cup	Confectioners sugar
1 teaspoon	Vanilla
2½ cup	All purpose flour
	Filling:
2 tablespoons	Cream cheese
1 tablespoon	Milk
½ cup	Confectioners sugar
2 tablespoons	Finely crushed peppermint
	Candy
1	Drop red food coloring
	Topping:
	1/4 cup confectioners sugar
6 tablespoons	Finely crushed peppermint
	Candy or candy cane

In Mixing bowl cream butter and sugar, add vanilla.Stir in flour and knead until well mixed. Reserve ½ cup of dough. Shape remaining dough into 1 inch balls. For filling: combine cream cheese and milk in a small bowl, stir in sugar and candy and food coloring, mix well.

Make a deep well in the center of each ball. fill with ¼ tsp.

filling, use reserved dough to cover filling. Reshape if necessary into smoothe balls. Place on ungreased baking sheetand bake at 350 F for 12 - 14 minutes. Combine topping ingredients and roll cookies in mixture while still warm. cool on wire rack.

peppermint snowballs