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Stained Glass Christmas Cookies Recipe

Add Step-by-Step Photos	Vindee / All my dishes 8 months, 3 weeks ago A cut-out cookie made out of my favourite basic sugar cookie dough. Then smaller bits are cut-out and filled with broken pieces of hard-boiled candy, and put in to bake. In a while you can see the candy melting beautifully into the cut-outs & the... More Prep:30m Cook:15m Servings:24	Vindee
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Ingredients

Butter – ¾ cup (room temp)

Castor Sugar- 1 cup (I grind sugar crystals in my coffee grinder)

Egg – 1 / beaten

Flour – 2 ½ cups

Salt – 1 pinch

Vanilla Essence/Extract – 1 tsp

Directions

Beat the butter and sugar till fluffy and light.

Add the salt + vanilla essence and beat for 30 seconds.

With a spatula mix in the beaten egg.

Put in all the flour in one go, and gather together to make a firm dough.

Chill for at least 30 minutes in wrap.

Preheat the oven to 190deg C. Keep 4 cookie sheets ready with baking parchment (I use aluminium foil).

Roll out to ¼ inch thickness and cut with assorted cookie cutters. Place them on the prepared cookie sheet.

Cut out smaller shapes into the cookies.

Fill these smaller cut-outs with small amounts of crushed hard-boiled candy. I've used 'poppins' which we get in a roll in different colours. If you wish to hang them, make small holes on top of each cookie with a straw.

Bake for 10-12 minutes, watching closely so that they don’t get too brown. You will see the candy melting and bubbling.

Remove from oven; spread the candy around with a wodden pick if the cavity is not filled completely. Let the cookies lay on the sheet for a minute. Carefully remove to racks & cool. I usually cut around the foil on each cookie, & peel it off once the cookie is cool. These cookies are quite fragile when hot/warm.

This recipe makes approximately 4 dozen 3" cookies.

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