Stained Glass Cookies. In a large mixing bowl, cream butter, brown sugar and molasses until smooth. Stir together flour, baking soda, salt, and spices. Gradually add flour mixture to creamed mixture; blend well.

Stained Glass Cookies are sure to impress people of all ages! These crisp buttery cookies are cut into festive shapes and filled with hard candies, then they're baked and the candy melts into an even layer for a beautiful stained glass effect. Beat in the molasses and vanilla extract. You can have Stained Glass Cookies using 5 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Stained Glass Cookies

It's of flour.
It's of butter.
Prepare of sugar.
It's of egg.
You need of candies(various colors).

Mix sugar, shortening, vanilla and eggs in large bowl. Stir in flour, baking powder and salt. It was time for our annual neighborhood cookie exchange and I needed a new recipe to try! Knowing that Dorie Greenspan had a recipe for stained glass cookies that my "Dorista" pals were.

Stained Glass Cookies step by step

Put butter and sugar in bowl and stir together until it becomes white..
Mix egg. Add it in bowl and stir together. (divide it into several times).
Add and mix the sifted flour..
When it become dumpling, chill it in the refrigerator approximately 30 min ~ 1 hour with wrapped by plastic lap..
Rolling out them and press cookie frame.Put baking paper on the baking sheet and set up framed dough..
Preheat oven to 180℃. Bake for approximately 5 minutes..
Crush candies..
Put out cookies from oven and put crushed candies in them..
Bake for approximately 5 minutes again..
Put out from oven and cool them down well..
Remove cookies from sheet when to finish cooling..

These beautiful stained glass cookies are buttery sugar cookies with a candy center. A holiday classic that tastes as good as it looks! If you've never made stained glass window cookies before, this is the year you need to try. Remove sheets from oven; fill cutouts with crushed candy. Prepare an ice bath; set aside.