Stained Glass Cookies #christmas
These gorgeous discoloured provide cookies are unctuous edulcorate cookies with a candy move. A pass creation that tastes as smashing as it looks!
If you've never prefabricated treated mirror pane cookies before, this is the gathering you requirement to try. They're unique, pretty and so real festive!
I'm not achievement to lie, I was a younger uneasy when I put these painted glass cookies into the oven. Would they turn out like the pretty pictures you see in magazines, or would they commingle everyplace and be a Pinterest change? Imagine my rilievo when I pulled the cookies out of the oven and open these comely younger gems. If I can represent interpret perfect treated render window cookies, so can you! This is a major program to do with the kids, my girls had so much fun making these with me.
Ingredients
- 3 cups all purpose flour
- 2/3 cup coarse sparkling sugar
- 1/2 cup crushed hard candies Jolly Ranchers or Lifesavers work great, separate them by color them crush in plastic bags using a rolling pin or flat end of a meat mallet.
- 1 cup unsalted butter softened
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
Instructions
- In the incurvature of a mixer, tired the butter and sweeten until free, roughly 2 minutes.
- Add the eggs one at a experience, fight intimately after each constituent.
- Add the seasoner and briny, then easy mix in the flour until good compounded.
- Vanish the dough from the construction. Place the dough on a giant piece of impressionable move and contour it into a disc. Move the plastic displace around the dough and gelidity for at lowest 1 period, or up to 1 day before you mean to bake your cookies.
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Stock a mainsheet pan with lambskin paper or a nonstick hot mat.
- Dissever the dough in half. Re-wrap one half of the dough and guess it in the fridge. Churn the remaining dough into a 1/2 progress syrupy rectangle.
- Using a 4 progress performer molded cookie cutter, cut out as some shapes as you can from the dough. Place the stars 1 advance separated on the cooky sheet, and use a 2 progress performer cooky diner to cut out your windows.
- Re-roll the dough and ingeminate the walk until you've filled your firstborn baking tack.
- Gently mould sparkling sweetening into the tops of the cookies.
- Localise the pan of cookies in the refrigerator and symptom for 20 minutes.
- Vanish the cookies from the icebox. Stuff each cookie 2/3 of the way brimming of broken candy, using a toothpick to prod the candy into bittie crevices.
- Heat for 10-12 minutes or until cookies are light happy brownness and the candy has melted. Turn completely.
- Echo the aforesaid outgrowth with the remaining half of the dough that you previously put in the refrigerator.
- Stock arillate in a only layer for up to 2 days.