Peppermint snowballs
6 Servings
Ingredients
| Quantity | 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 | ||
Directions
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.