Stained Glass Cookies (recipe)

[Guest guest]

Here's another cookie I baked for holiday gift

baskets. I think I got the recipe from

www.foodtv.com. This was a more labor intensive

cookie with the rolling out and cutting of the dough

and placing candy inside the small cutouts of the

cookie. If you don't have a stand mixer (I don't), a

hand mixer works just fine. The sugar cookie dough

was excellent...tender, buttery, and flaky. I think I

will use it for my next batch of sugar cookies. Be

careful when biting into these....don't break a tooth

on the hard candy.

 

Stained Glass Cookies

 

1 cup sugar

2 sticks butter

2 eggs

1 teaspoon vanilla

3 cups flour

Assorted brightly colored, hard candies

1 (2 to 3 inch) star cookie cutter

1 small triangle cookie cutter

 

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. In a mixer with a

paddle attachment, cream the sugar and butter until

smooth. Add the egg and the vanilla extract. Mix in

the flour. Remove the dough from the mixer and press

into a rectangular shape. Wrap in plastic wrap and

refrigerate for at least 1 hour. Remove from the

refrigerator and cut dough into 1/3. Roll out dough,

1 piece at a time to a 3/16-inch thickness. Cut out as

many large stars as possible. Repeat with all of the

dough. Cut a small triangle out of each the arms on

each star. Place the hard candy, by color, into

small plastic bags. Place a towel over the bags and

crush

the candy with a meat mallet. Place all of the

cookies on parchment lined sheet pans. In each of the

triangle holes, fill with different colors of crushed

hard

candy. Bake in the oven for 10 to 15 minutes or

until lightly golden brown, and the candy has melted.

 

Yield: approximately 4 dozen cookies