This is one of my favorite Christmas cookies from when I was a kid. They are a little long to make but so delicious and fun to malke when you have little hands to help you roll out the dough. Ingredients: 1 cup butter 1 cup sugar 1 egg 1 1/2 tsp almond extract 1 tsp vanilla extract 2 1/2 cups flour 1 tsp salt red food coloring The dough: 1. Preheat oven to 375°F line a baking sheet with parchment paper 2. Beat together butter, egg, sugar and flavors sift together flour and salt 3. Add the dry to the wet ingredients mix until well blended 4. Seperate the dough into two equal portions 5. Add the red food coloring to one of portions of dough. Making the cookies: 1. Roll two long thin ropes one of the red dough and one of the plain dough 2. Line the two ropes up side by side, cut the ropes into equal sized sections. 3. Twist each section then shape into candy canes. 4. Bake for 9 minutes until set and sl...