How to Shape White Ropes in Dough for 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. Now that I have all of the red dough rolled out into very same shaped rope, you want to get as close as possible to four inches and the same length for all of them. It's time to start working on the non color portion. We're going to do the exact same thing where we're taking one tablespoon, or I'm sorry, one teaspoon of dough. You want to roll it out so it's about a four inch long rope and it's very important in particular not only that you get all of the same color ropes to be the same size but particularly the different colored ones. Because we're going to be combining them to form our candy canes. We want everything to be able to cook evenly. So we have to try and get as close of the same size possible for each color. This will make things cook more evenly and it'll just be easier for you to work with it. And once you get a rhythm going it really becomes quiet easy to maintain the same for each of them. And so you end up with whole rows and rows of little four inch long ropes of cookie dough."