How to Divide & Color Candy Cane Cookies

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Jennifer Cail and on behalf of Expert Village, I'm going to show you how to make these peppermenty candy cane cookies. Our candy cane dough is now all mixed up. It's a nice very, very stiff dough. Our next step is we're going to divide it in half and then color half of it red leaving the other half the neutral color so that when we make our cookies and form them, we'll have the red and white stripes of the candy cane. You want to try and get as close to half as possible so if you can, this being a really stiff dough, it's a little bit hard to maneuver it, particularly when your spatula is falling apart. But you want to get half of it out because you're going to need even amounts of each color in order to form the cookies. So let's get back in and get the rest of that dough out. So that's about half and once we have this divided and colored, then we're going to be letting it cool for a little bit, but I will talk about that in just a few minutes. So we've got half of it in here, we're going to put it back in the mixer. Put that paddle back on there and then we're going to add a half of teaspoon of red food dye. As I've mentioned it before, when you're measuring out this much dye, it is much easier to have it in a bottle form rather than a drop. If you're using drops, then a half of teaspoon is about forty drops. So if you want to sit there and count them, then be my guest, but I'm going for the easy route which is to measure it. So it's going to look like a lot but you'll be surprised at how pale the color ends up being. We have it back in there and we're just going to mix it up again. You can see now that this has been mixed in with the food dye, we've got a really nice red, red half of the dough for making our candy cane cookies."