I've been busy with Christmas prep this week. I wanted to show you some cookies that I made, improvising one of my mother's recipes for chocolate-vanilla swirl cookies. It's a refrigerator cookie dough. You mix the dough, form into a log or block, chill, then slice and bake.
After making the basic vanilla dough, instead of making one half chocolate flavored, I added red gel food coloring and several drops of peppermint oil to the non-white batch.
I can't say how much peppermint I used, maybe 7 drops, until I thought it tasted good and minty without being overly so.
These peppermint-vanilla swirl cookies will go into the stack of tins that I gift to my son and daughter-in-law each Christmas, as a way to share what I'm baking for the rest of the family.
I hope your week is off to a great start!
