Christmas Candy Canes

Ingredients:
3/4 cup sugar
3/4 cup butter softened
1 egg
2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 tsp. vanilla
1/2 tsp. peppermint extract
1/2 tsp. salt
1/4 tsp. baking powder
1/4 cup flaked coconut
1 tsp. red food coloring

Baking your cookies
In mixing bowl cream together butter and sugar.
Beat in vanilla, egg and peppermint extract.
In bowl stir together flour salt and baking powder.
Stir flour mixture into creamed mixture.
Divide dough in half, stir coconut into one half.
Blend food coloring into the other dough portion. Cover each and chill for half an hour.
Divide each bowl of dough into approx. 2" balls.
Roll each ball into a 5 inch rope.To make your cookies,
pinch together one end of a red and white rope.
Twist ropes together, place on non-stick cookie sheet
and curve tops to form canes.
Bake at 375 degrees for 10 minutes.