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 cook Stained Glass Cookies using 5 ingredients and 1 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Stained Glass Cookies
- Prepare of butter.
- It's of cookie mix.
- It's of egg.
- You need of flour.
- You need of hard candies, preferably in several flavors/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 instructions
- Preheat oven, prepare baking sheets: Pre-heat oven to 375°F. Prepare the dough: add cookie mix,egg,butter and flour in a mixer and prepare a cooking dough. Chill the dough: Wrap the dough and refrigerate at least an hour and up to 2 days. Crush candies: Remove any plastic wrapping on the hard candies. Crush the candies with a mallet or hammer. Roll out dough: roll the dough with the help of rolling pin Cut shapes with cookie cutters: Use cookie cutters to cut the dough into forms. Transfer.
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.