Sweet Cherry Candy Cane Cookies

Looking for something sugary sweet...seasonally cute...and pretty darn quick to make? Well. Do I have just the thing for you. These Sweet Cherry Candy Cane Cookies are going to do the trick. These cookies are sweet, like a sugar cookie with a little hint of cherry flavoring.
Hope you like them!

***NOTE: Be sure to get the dough ingredients mixed well. If you have a Kitchen Aid or Bosch mixer you will be set. If you are without one of these fine mixers, do not despair. Get your those hands of yours in the dough and mix all the ingredients up with your fingers. If the red dough is a too crumbly add just a bit more water. You want it to to hold its shape...but not be too sticky. Don't get carried away with the water.***

2 boxes white cake mix
1 C butter melted
2 eggs
 

Red Dough:

1 small box black cherry Jello

1 T water
1/2 t red food coloring jell

 White Dough:

1 T water

1/2 t almond extract
                     

1. In a mixing bowl, or your stand mixer beat together the cake mix, melted butter and eggs.

2. Separate the dough in half. Add the Jello, water and food coloring to one half of the dough. This will make it red with a little hint on cherry flavoring.

3. To the other half of the dough add the water, and almond extract.

4. Shape each half into a big round ball. Then cut the ball into approximately 24 pieces. The picture above only shows each round being cut into about 18 pieces. Some of them were too large, so I ended up cutting them in half.

5. Take a red piece and a white piece. Roll them each into a snake shape. Then twist them around each other to make a rope. In a perfect world I would have a picture of the rope for you! I honestly thought I had taken one. So sorry, but you will just have to imagine it.

6. Shape the rope into a candy cane shape. Place on a greased cookie sheet and bake at 350 for 8 minutes, or until the cookies start to crack. Remove from the oven and let them continue to cook for about 2 minutes on the hot sheet.

7. Remove from the pan and finish cooling on a wire rack.

Enjoy!

If you get a little lazy and want to skip the roll a snake build a rope step...then just grab a piece of red dough, a piece of white dough and roll them into a ball. They make cute little red and white cookies.

Yield: 2 dozen cookies.

Recipe Source: http://jamiecooksitup.blogspot.com/2010/12/sweet-cherry-candy-cane-cookies.html