Tips for Cooling Candy Cane Cookies

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Jennifer Cail and on behalf of Expert Village I'm going to show you to make these pepperminty candy cane cookies. As soon as the cookies has cooled for a minute or two in the pan usually you can tell cause you can start touching the edge. Then they are ready to be completely cooled on a cooling rack. You really want to be careful with these they are not delicate because of the twist the tops can easily be broken off. When you transfer them to a cooling rack now there are a couple of things you can do with these, of course they are delicious by themselves. Or you can also cover them with a sugar glaze. I personally don't like that because I think it makes them to sweet. With the flavor as it is you really don't need anything added, the peppermint extract gives a great flavor to these making them seem more like candy canes than cookies. Although they are wonderful texture of a cookie inside of a hard candy you want to be careful in taking them off and just slide them back on. It's a really nice to have a big glide cookie spatula you can get these cookies off without having to hang off the edges at all. You also want to be careful when putting them on the cooling rack so that they don't fall in between and once you get them all on you can let them set. Before doing anything else with the cookies you want to let them cool completely at least give them a half an hour depending on how cool your kitchen is and how hot it is so that they are cooled to the touch. Otherwise if you start to store them or put them on a plate while they are still warm then you are going to end up with some steam particularly if you store them you don't want that. Let them cool completely before the next step."