If you are looking for an impressive cookie to make for the holidays or any time of the year, make these homemade stained glass cookies. I just love these!
Stained glass cookies are incredibly easy to make, if I can I do it, you can do it. Let鈥檚 get baking!
Ingredients
- 3 cups of all-purpose flour 360g
- 1/2 tsp. of salt 2g
- 1 cup of softened room temp butter unsalted. If you use salted reduce the salt in half (226g)
- 1 cup of white granulated sugar 200g
- 2 large eggs
- 1 1/2 tsp. of vanilla extract 7ml
- 20 to 30 jolly ranchers/hard candy smashed
Instructions
Add the flour and salt to a medium bowl and whisk them together.
In a large bowl, add the softened room temperature butter and the white granulated sugar and mix until just combined. Mix in the eggs one at a time and then the vanilla extract. Scrape the sides of the bowl as needed with a spatula.
Add in the flour mixture a third of it at a time until it is all mixed in. And just like that, the easy cookie dough is finished.
Place the dough on a table or counter, you may need a little bit of flour on the surface. Then shape the dough into a disc or rectangle and wrap with plastic wrap. Store the dough in the fridge for about an hour.
Sort the individual colors and unwrap them, and place them in a sandwich bag. Then mash away with a meat tenderizer or rolling pin. You don't need to make a powder from it, just until the pieces are fairly small around a sixth of the size of a full one or something.
Flour the work surface and cut the dough in half and wrap back up one of the halves and place it back in the fridge. Roll out the dough until it is between 1/4th and 1/8th of an inch.
Use the larger cookie cutters and cut out the shapes, peel away the excess dough, and put together and re-roll. Place the cookies onto a sheet pan or cookie sheet lined with parchment paper or a silicone mat. Use a smaller cookie cutter and cut out the middle of the cookies. Place the pan back in the fridge for 15 to 20 minutes.
Preheat the oven to 350 F/176 C. Then use a small spoon and fill in the middles of the cookies with the candy pieces. Don't fill them up too much otherwise, they will bleed on the top. About 2 thirds full is great.
Bake them in the oven on the middle rack for 12 to 14 minutes, until the cookies are slightly golden brown and the candy melts. If you want the cookies softer, 12 minutes is about right, if you want them a bit crunchier and more brown, 14 minutes.
Allow them to cool completely on the pan. Before serving, enjoy!
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