Little candy canes

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• bethlewissmile

  29 October 2008

  bethlewissmile commented on this recipe

  how well and how long do they keep for? look great!

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• my resipes

  11 December 2008

  my resipes commented on this recipe

  you need to have alot of patience for these! but they taste good, they are like biscuits!

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• Ami

  18 December 2008

  Ami rated and commented on this recipe

  

  They are a little hard to make, they break when you try to form them and you have to put the dough in the fridge every 5 minutes. If you are a calm baker and you want some Christmas spirit on your table, you should try them. They really look lovely and the kids love them!

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• Ben

  30 December 2008

  Ben rated and commented on this recipe

  

  Hard, but tasty

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• Louise Howe

  30 March 2009

  Louise Howe rated and commented on this recipe

  

  Forget hard to make, try nigh on impossible. Tasted good though.

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• hattie

  02 December 2010

  hattie commented on this recipe

  I found it easier to put the 2 rolled out pastrys ontop of each other befor cutting them into strips then rolling them into shape in my hands, that way your sure to get the same sized strips of dough! Quite fiddly at first but areally pretty and tasty!

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• Sammie

  23 December 2010

  Sammie rated and commented on this recipe

  

  Stupidly difficult...

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• poodleperm

  15 September 2011

  poodleperm rated and commented on this recipe

  

  These tasted lovely but there is no way you can get them to stay 'cane' shaped. The dough is far too soft to make these shapes. I had to reform them while still warm which ruined the look totally.

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• Helen

  22 December 2011

  Helen commented on this recipe

  moderately easy??? We found them very difficult to make as they crumbled and would not form very well, i started at half 10 and finished at half 1!!! 30 minutes turned to 3 hours!!! they taste disgusting and don't look like canes at all.

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• Helen

  22 December 2011

  Helen commented on this recipe

  moderately easy??? We found them very difficult to make as they crumbled and would not form very well, i started at half 10 and finished at half 1!!! 30 minutes turned to 3 hours!!! they taste disgusting and don't look like canes at all.

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• Basil Brush

  23 December 2011

  Basil Brush commented on this recipe

  I tried these with trepidation, having read some of the comments. True to form, I attempted to make them and ended up giving up, having made about five rather deformed canes. Bunged the rest of the dough in the fridge and tried again today. Dough is MUCH better if you add more flour to make it more handle-able, and forming the canes is FAR easier if you ignore the "roll out the dough" instruction and make sausages (or "ropes", if you're being posh) and then roll them together. 10/10 for taste, 0/10 for method prescribed in the recipe!

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• Eleri

  30 October 2012

  Eleri rated and commented on this recipe

  

  Urgh, twisting these took forever but once I got how to do it I did find it quite relaxing just sitting at the kitchen counter rolling! They don't really taste of much but they did look very pretty hanging on the christmas tree! These were still edible after about a week hanging on the christmas tree. They are quite dry so tend to keep pretty well.

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Ingredients

• red food colouring

SUGAR COOKIE DOUGH

• 200g unsalted butter , at room temperature
• 150g caster sugar
• 2 tsp vanilla extract
• 1 egg
• 300g plain flour , sifted

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Makes 40

Preparation and cooking times

Ready in 30 minutes, plus chilling

Ingredients

• red food colouring

SUGAR COOKIE DOUGH

• 200g unsalted butter , at room temperature
• 150g caster sugar
• 2 tsp vanilla extract
• 1 egg
• 300g plain flour , sifted

Per cane

80 kcalories, protein 0.9g, carbohydrate 9.9g, fat 4.4 g, saturated fat 2.7g, fibre 0.2g, salt 0.01 g

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