Stained glass cookies are easy to make with pre-mixed cookie dough, hard candy, and basic kitchen tools. Roll out the dough, use it to create cookie shapes, and fill with crushed candy. Bake and cool before serving or hanging as ornaments.
Stained glass cookies are a wonderful way to create a colorful treat that can be served on a plate or hung as an ornament on the holiday tree. Made with simple cookie dough and a hard candy mix, the Stained Glass Cookie is easy to make. Using just a basic recipe, almost anyone can make stained glass cookies in under thirty minutes.
One of the easiest ways to make stained glass cookies is to buy a container of pre-mixed cookie dough from the supermarket. Also, buy different colors of hard candy. If the kitchen isn’t already stocked with parchment or aluminum foil, quart-sized plastic bags with a secure-zip top, and a rolling pin, purchase those items, too.
Let the dough warm up to room temperature, then the substance will be easy to work with. Pinch off a small portion of the dough and roll it into strips that are no more than a quarter-inch thick. Place a section of parchment paper or foil on the flat surface of a cookie sheet and use the strips to create various cookie shapes. The strips will form the outline of the cookie.
Empty the hard candies into several plastic bags. Make sure you only use one color in each bag. Using the rolling pin, crush the hard candy pieces into small flakes. Keep in mind that the crushed candy should be as beautiful as possible. If the rolling pin doesn’t seem to work, wrap the plastic bag in a dish towel and hit the bag with a hammer.
Once the hard candy is pulverized, fill the openings in the outlines of the colored glass cookies. Keep in mind that there is no wrong way to do this. You may want to use one color per cookie or two or more. Experiment by making some solid colored glass cookies along with some eclectic mixes. Bake the cookies in a preheated oven at 375 degrees Fahrenheit for 8 to 10 minutes. Remove the pan from the oven when the stained glass cookies are a light golden brown.
The biscuits will need to cool thoroughly before being lifted from the pan. This will usually take no more than half an hour at room temperature. Gently peel the stained glass cookies from the foil or parchment with a spatula.
If you plan to use the stained glass cookies as ornaments, be sure to use a chopstick or straw to poke a hole in the top of the dough before baking. This will make it easier to insert yarn or ribbon through the hole later and hang the ornamental cookies on your holiday tree.
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