Main Ingredients:

See below ingredients and instructions of the recipe

Cooking Preparation of the Recipe:

1 c Margarine or Butter, 3 c Flour
(softened) 1/2 ts Baking soda
1 c Sugar 1/4 ts Salt
1 Egg 1/2 ts Peppermint extract
2 tb Milk 4 (to 5) Drops red food color
1 ts Vanilla 1/4 c Pink sugar

In a large bowl, combine margarine, sugar, egg, milk, and vanilla; mix
until light and fluffy. Lightly spoon flour into measuring cup; level off.
In medium bowl, combine flour, baking soda and salt. Add flour mixture to
margarine mixture; mix well. Place half of dough into a plastic bag or
wrap in plastic. To remaining half of dough, add peppermint extract and
red food color; mix well. Place in plastic bag or wrap. Refrigerate both
portions about 1 hour.

Divide each portion of dough in half. Roll 1 part white dough into a
10x8-inch rectangle between 2 pieces of plastic wrap. Set aside. Repeat
with 1 part pink dough. Remove top sheet of plastic wrap from both the
pink and the white dough. Place pink dough over white dough; remove
plastic wrap from pink dough. Trim edges, if desired. Starting at the
10-inch edge, roll up dough jelly-roll fashion, removing plastic wrap from
bottom as dough is rolled. Repeat with remaining dough to form second roll.

Place 2 tablespoons of the pink sugar on separate sheet of plastic
wrap. Roll 1 roll of dough in pink sugar, pressing gently into dough.
Repeat with second roll. Wrap in plastic wrap; refrigerate 8 hours or up
to 1 week.

Heat oven to 375øF. Slice cookies 1/8 inch thick. Place 1 inch apart
on ungreased cookie sheets. Bake for 5 to 7 minutes or until light golden
brown. Cool 1 minute; remove from cookie sheets. Cool completely.

Makes 10 dozen cookies

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Nutrition Information Per Serving: 1 Cookie

Calories..........................35 Carbohydrates................4g
Fat...............................2g Cholesterol..................2mg
Sodium..........................30mg Potassium....................5mg
Dietary Exchanges: 1/2 Fat

Source: Classic Pillsbury Cookbook - Holiday December 1993

Typed for you by Lois Flack, Cyberealm BBS, Watertown, NY.

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