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    Home » Recipes » Cookies Bars and Squares

    How to make Stained Glass Cookies

    December 14, 2015 by Laureen King

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    Step by step instructions and video for How to Make Stained Glass Cookies. These holiday cookies are so easy and fun to make! 
 via @artandthekitchStep by step instructions and video for How to Make Stained Glass Cookies. These holiday cookies are so easy and fun to make!  via @artandthekitch

    Step by step instructions and video for How to Make Stained Glass Cookies. These holiday cookies are so easy and fun to make!

    Cut out cookies with melted candy centre that looks like stained glass.

    I used  some favourite Gingerbread Cookie Dough for these cookies, but any sugar cookie dough will work. I have a few great sugar cookie recipe that you will love.  Candy Cane Sugar Cookies and my Best Ever Sugar Cookies  which include two yummy flavours Pumpkin Spice and Cardamom Orange Sugar Cookies.

    Cut out cookies with melted candy centre that looks like stained glass.

    Cut out cookies with melted candy centre that looks like stained glass.

    How to Make Stained Glass Cookies

    easy instructions to make stained glass looking cookies
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    Total Time 10 mins
    Course cookies
    Cuisine American
    Servings 24

    Ingredients
      

    • cookie dough
    • colourful hard candy life savers, jolly ranchers

    Instructions
     

    • Preheat oven to 350º F. Line cookie sheet with parchment paper. Very important to do this or cookies will stick!
    • Roll out your favourite cookie dough to ¼ inch thickness.
    • Cut into desire shapes with larger cookie cutter, then use smaller cookie cutter to cut inside shape.
    • Crush candies into small chunks.
    • Bake 7-10 minutes. Cool cookies before removing from baking sheet!

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    Keyword stained glass cookies, Holiday cookies
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    How to Make these beautiful stained glass cookies.

    Use any hard colourful candy you like. I usually used Lifesavers or Jolly Ranchers

    Yellow, blue, green and red hard candies on wood board.

    Place candies in plastic bag and smash with mallet.

    Colored hard candies and plastic bag filled with crushed blue candies with a meat mallet.

    Roll out cookie dough to ¼" thickness.

    Wood rolling pin rolling out gingerbread dough.

    Cut out dough using large cookie cutter, then cut center with smaller cookie cutter. Any two cookie cutters will work as long small fits into larger cutter and leaves enough dough to hold candies in.

    Rolled out gingerbread dough cut into circle shapes.

    Line baking sheet with Parchment paper!! Parchment paper will prevent candy from sticking to baking sheet and allow easy removal of cookies. Fill centers with crushed candies. The amount of candy required will depend on size of center you cut out. These cookies took 5-6 candies.

    Gingerbread dough cut into circle shapes filled with colorful, crushed hard candies.

    Bake until cookies are done, approximately 7-10 minutes. Allow cookies to cool before removing from baking sheet.

    Four circle cookies with colourful stained glass looking centers.

    Leave plain, or decorate some more with royal icing. These cookies are so easy to make and everyone will rave about your beautiful cookies!

    Cut out cookies with melted candy centre that looks like stained glass.

     

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    Step by step instructions and video for How to Make Stained Glass Cookies. These holiday cookies are so easy and fun to make!  via @artandthekitch

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    Comments

    1. Michelle

      January 01, 2016 at 3:37 pm

      Excellent tutorial, I love these cookies!

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      • Laureen King

        January 01, 2016 at 7:59 pm

        Thanks Michelle

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      January 11, 2016 at 8:20 am

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    2. Shamrock Sugar Cookies | Art and the Kitchen says:
      March 21, 2016 at 4:28 pm

      […] cardboard taste you often get with sugar cookies. I decorated with royal icing making some with a stained glass effect and some with a brush embroidery technique. My inspiration for the brush embroidery technique […]

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