Easiest Way to Prepare Yummy Peppermint Pinkies

Peppermint Pinkies.

You can have Peppermint Pinkies using 11 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Peppermint Pinkies

1. You need 1 cup of Butter, do not substitute.
2. Prepare 1/2 cup of Powdered sugar.
3. You need 1/2 tsp of Salt.
4. It's 1/4 tsp of Peppermint extract.
5. Prepare 4 each of Drops of red food coloring.
6. You need 2 cup of All purpose flour.
7. You need of Filling.
8. It's 1/4 cup of Cream cheese, softened.
9. Prepare 1 cup of Powdered sugar.
10. Prepare 1/4 cup of Crushed candy canes or peppermint candies.
11. It's 1 tsp of Cream or milk.

Peppermint Pinkies step by step

1. Beat the butter, powdered sugar, salt, coloring & peppermint extract..
2. Mix in the flour. Using hands to form a cohesive dough ball..
3. Cut the dough into 4 equal parts..
4. Roll each quarter of the dough into a 12 inch rope and place on a cookie sheet..
5. Make an indentation down the center of each piece, but be careful not to go to the bottom..
6. Bake the cookies at 325 for 20 minutes. Do not let brown..
7. While cookies are baking, mix the filling and place in a piping bag or ziplock bag and have ready for when the cookies are done..
8. Let cookies cool for only a minute or 2, then pipe the filling evenly down the center well of each piece..
9. Let cookies cool completely on the pan and cut into equal size pieces..