Chocolate Candy Cane Cookies

I found these cookies on the kraft canada website 2 years ago and found they were super easy and store great.

This is what you will need to make them:
1 package (250 g)                  cream cheese, softened
3/4 cup                                margarine or butter, softened
1 cup                                   sugar
2 tsp                                    vanilla
2 1/2 cups                            flour
1/2 tsp                                 baking soda
4 squares                              Baker's Semi Sweet Chocolate, melted
1 package(6 squares)             Baker's White chocolate, melted
12                                       candy canes, crushed

1.  Heat oven to 350 degrees F
2.  Beat first four ingredients together until well blended.  This takes about 3 minutes with my mixer.
3.  Add flour and baking soda.  While that is mixing melt the semi sweet chocolate in the microwave.  5 seconds on high usually works the best.  Make sure to stir well.
4.  Add melted semi sweet chocolate to dough mixture.

5.  Shape tablespoonfuls of dough into 52 balls.  I used my small cookie scoop for this.

6.  Roll each dough into 3 inch ropes.  Mine varied in size.  Curve the top into a hook to look like a candy cane.

Christy, my lovely sous chef

My husband crushing the candy canes for us since we couldn't seem to break them with the hammer

7.  Bake 10 to 12 minutes or until light brown.  Cool on cookie sheets for 5 minutes.  Transfer to wire cooling rack.
8.  I wait about an hour or so before decorating these cookies.

9.  Melt white chocolate in microwave.  Then drizzle the white chocolate over the cookies.  I do about 5 cookies at a time so that I can sprinkle the crushed candy canes over them while the chocolate is setting and it stays better

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