These yummy holiday cookies, fondly called
'Santa's Whiskers', are made with rum-flavored cookie dough,
studded with finely chopped red and green candied cherries and
pecans, that is formed into logs and rolled in coconut, and refrigerated
overnight prior to being thinly sliced and baked.
Santa's Whiskers
1 cup butter
1 cup granulated sugar
2 tablespoons milk
1 teaspoon rum extract
2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
3/4 cup finely chopped red and green candied cherries
1/2 cup finely chopped pecans
3/4 cup flaked coconut
- In bowl, cream together butter and sugar
until light and fluffy. Blend in milk and rum extract. Stir in
flour, candied cherries and pecans until just mixed.
- Form into two (2 x 8-inch) rolls. Roll
in coconut. Wrap in plastic or wax paper and chill overnight.
- Preheat oven to 375°F (190°C).
- Cut into 1/4-inch thick slices and place
1-inch apart onto an ungreased cookie sheet.
- Bake for about 12 minutes or until edges
are golden.
Makes about 5 dozen.
