Beautifully decorated Stained Glass Valentine Cookies are a great treat for Valentine’s Day and make a pretty edible gift.
Stained Glass Valentine Cookies start with my scrumptious sugar cookie recipe. These cookies cut out beautifully with nice sharp edges. I then decorated them royal icing and an easy to do stained glass look effect. Check out this easy to follow recipe How to make Royal Icing and video on how to make Stained Glass Cookies
These gorgeous cookies make a wonderful edible gift. Package them in a decorative tin or individually in a cellophane bag tied with a pretty ribbon.
This easy to follow video demonstrates how to get the stained glass look effect.
Stained Glass Valentine Cookies
Beatiful, tasty stained glass looking cookies
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Prep Time: 1 hour
Cook Time: 9 minutes
Total Time: 1 hour 9 minutes
Servings: 2 dozen
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups butter softened
- 1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
- 1 vanilla bean opened and seeds scraped out
- 2 eggs + 1 egg yolk
- 1 1/2 tsp cardamom
- 1 tbsp orange zest
- 3 3/4 cups all purpose flour
- 1 tsp salt
- 40-50 red hard candies such as lifesavers or Jolly Ranchers
Instructions
- Sift together flour, salt and cardamom spice.
- Using electric mixer beat the butter and sugar together until fluffy- about 5 minutes.
- Add vanilla bean, mix well, then add eggs and orange zest.
- Add flour mix a bit at a time, blend together until combined.
- Cut dough into 3 disks, wrap with plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least 30 minutes.
- When ready to bake preheat oven to 350 F.
- Crush hard candies ( I put candies in heavy duty ziploc bag and pound with meat hammer)
- Line cookie sheet with parchment paper ( must use parchment paper or cookies with stick)
- On floured surface roll dough to 1/4 inch thickness.
- Cut out large hearts, then with smaller heart cookie cutter cut smaller heart inside of large heart
- Place cookies on cookie sheet.
- Fill centre of heart with crushed candies being careful not to spill candies onto cookie dough.
- Bake for 8-10 minutes. Just until edges start to brown.
- Cool completely before removing from parchment paper.
Enjoy this other great decorative cookie recipe for Valentine Day Cookies
Laureen King says
February 7, 2013 at 3:21 pmThank you Guillermo
Laureen King says
February 8, 2013 at 3:43 pmAna, yes indeed some things are made with love 🙂
Karen Harris says
February 9, 2013 at 1:12 amLaureen, I just adore these. Even though my kids are big now I think they would love them. They are never too old to be my Valentines.
Laureen King says
February 9, 2013 at 2:14 amThank you Karen, I have a grown son as well as he still enjoys special cookies!
kat levitt says
February 13, 2013 at 10:23 pmThese are beautiful! Good job! Thanks for sharing this recipe! xx a girl and her food
Laureen King says
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Caroline - All That I'm Eating says
February 14, 2013 at 1:11 pmThese are so pretty, what a great gift to give someone on Valentine’s Day!
Laureen King says
February 14, 2013 at 3:31 pmThank you Caroline, and Happy Valentine’s Day to you.
Ribella says
February 24, 2016 at 3:38 pmThese are so beautiful! Can’t wait to try them with my kiddos!! Thank you for sharing <3
Laureen King says
February 24, 2016 at 4:07 pmRibella, love to hear back from you when you try making them.