Easiest Way to Prepare Perfect Stained glass cookies

Stained glass cookies. Transfer cookies and foil to a cooling rack and cool completely before removing foil. Fill the cut-out areas of the cookies two-thirds full with the crushed candy. Bake the cookies, rotating the baking sheets from top to bottom and front to back halfway through, until light golden.

Remove sheets from oven; fill cutouts with crushed candy. Stained glass cookies are SO EASY to make and so impressive to look at. I love seeing light peek through the centers and yes, you can decorate your tree with them! You can cook Stained glass cookies using 9 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Stained glass cookies

1. Prepare of all purpose flour.
2. Prepare of corn flour.
3. You need of baking powder.
4. You need of butter.
5. You need of powdered sugar.
6. You need of egg.
7. You need of vanilla essence.
8. Prepare of orange candy.
9. Prepare of black currant candy.

Beat in the molasses and vanilla extract. 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.

Stained glass cookies step by step

1. In a large mixing bowl combine the soft butter and powdered sugar. Mix it using a whisk and beat until it's light and creamy..
2. To this add vanilla essence and egg. Mix it well..
3. In another bowl take the flour, corn flour and baking powder. Mix it properly..
4. Add the flour mixture to the butter mixture and mix it all really well using a spatula. Do not over mix. Mix until it all comes together to form a dough..
5. Wrap the dough with plastic wrap and let it sit in the fridge for 30 minutes..
6. Sprinkle some dry flour on a clean, flat surface and roll out the dough. Cut the cookies using a heart shaped cookie cutter. Cut out the center using a smaller heart shaped cookie cutter..
7. Brush the baking dish with soyabean oil and line it with baking paper. Place the cookies on the paper..
8. Grind the orange and black currant candies separately..
9. Fill the cavities of the cookies with the ground candies..
10. Bake these cookies in a preheated oven on 180°c for 10 minutes..
11. Let the cookies cool on a cooling rack and store in an airtight container..

They're unique, pretty and so very festive! 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. The stained glass in these cookies is made of crushed up hard candies. They can be any candy you like as long as they are hard.