'Cookies are made of butter and love'.
Norwegian Proverb
Festive, fascinating & delicio...
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'Cookies are made of butter and love'.
Norwegian Proverb
Festive, fascinating & delicious cookies!
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 cookie baking to a perfect brown. I make these a couple of times in the winter months; in summer they tend to get sticky due to humidity levels being high. They involve an extra bit of effort, otherwise would love to make them more often!
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
Method:
- 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.
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- 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.
Stained glass cookies make lovely tree ornaments and gifts as well. They light up faces, young & old, with a beauty that is special.
Preheat the oven to 190deg C. Keep 4 cookie sheets ready with baking parchment (I use aluminium foil).
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Looks lovely, will surely try it.
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