Stained Glass Cookies
Our latest discovery of fun cookies to make and bake for the holiday season are these wonderfully fun and amazingly beautiful Stained Glass Cookies. Who would have thought that one could make cookies that let light in through a colorful candy window?! Amazing cookiness, if you ask me. And you can even hang them on your Christmas tree!
- Prep time
- 12 min
- Cook time
- 12 min
- Yield
- 30 servings
- Difficulty
- MEDIUM
Ingredients
Quantities are shown as originally provided.
- 1 3/4 cup all purpose flour, 227g
- 6 tbsp salted butter, 85g
- 1/2 cup sugar, 113g
- 1/4 tsp ground nutmeg
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/8 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 2 small egg whites
- 20 hard sugar candies, different colors
Instructions
- 1
Separate the different colored candies into little plastic zip bags. Use hammer or the bottom of a heavy skillet to crush the candies into small pieces.
- 2
Cream together butter, sugar, nutmeg, salt, baking soda and vanilla.
- 3
Add in half the flour and beat in until incorporated.
- 4
Add in half the egg white and beat in. Repeat with remaining flour and egg white. Should not stick to sides of bowl, add 1-2 tbsp flour if still sticking.
- 5
Press into a ball, cover and chill in fridge for at least 2 hours.
- 6
Preheat oven to 350F (176C). Line baking sheet with parchment paper.
- 7
Lightly flour working surface and then roll out cookie dough to a bit less than 1/4 inch thickness.
- 8
Use cookie cutters, lightly dusting them with flour first, to cut out desired shapes and the center cutouts. Punch hole with a straw at cookie top if you want to hang the cookies.
- 9
Carefully remove the cutouts, then, using an offset spatula, lift the cookies to the parchment lined baking sheet. Fill the cookie cutouts level with crushed candy.
- 10
Bake 12 mins or until just brown at the edges of cookies. The candy centers should be melted and flat.
- 11
Let cool in pan at least 10 mins before removing. String through with pretty ribbon if hanging the cookies.
- 12
Store all other cookies in an air tight cookie tin.