STAINED-GLASS SUGAR COOKIES
Filling the cutouts of these sugar cookies with crushed hard candy yields the most striking stained glass effect.
Provided by Martha Stewart
Categories Food & Cooking Dessert & Treats Recipes Cookie Recipes
Time 1h
Yield Makes 3 dozen
Number Of Ingredients 8
Steps:
- In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, and salt. In a large bowl, using an electric mixer, beat butter and sugar on medium-high until light and fluffy, 3 minutes. Add egg yolks and vanilla and beat to combine. With mixer on low, gradually add flour mixture and beat to combine. Form dough into 2 disks, wrap in plastic, and refrigerate 30 minutes.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees, with racks in upper and lower thirds. Working with 1 disk at a time, roll out dough between floured parchment paper to 1/8-inch thickness. Stack dough in parchment on a baking sheet; refrigerate until firm, 30 minutes. With a 2 1/2-inch Christmas-ball-shaped cutter, cut out dough (reroll scraps, if desired). Place cookies, 1 inch apart, on two parchment-lined baking sheets. With a 1-inch star cutter, cut out dough in center of each cookie. Bake until cookies are pale but set, 8 to 10 minutes, rotating sheets halfway through. Remove sheets from oven; fill cutouts with crushed candy. Bake until cookies begin to brown at edges and candy is melted, 3 minutes. Let cool completely on sheets on wire racks.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 254 g, Fat 11 g, Fiber 1 g, Protein 3 g, SaturatedFat 7 g
STAINED GLASS PAINT FOR COOKIES
I'm terrible with a pastry bag and royal icing to decorate cookies. Just have no talent for it. I found this recipe at brownielocks.com and had to share it because the cookies turned out so well! Unlike other "stained glass" cookies that require hard candies that are, well, just too hard on a soft cookie, this makes a beautiful and edible solution. I did pipe the outlines in royal icing. Important: Use a paint brush and do a light coat first and let dry. After the first coat, you can daub on to fill up to your lines for a thicker coat. Cooking time is drying time.
Provided by MawMaw Angela
Categories Dessert
Time 12h2m
Yield 12 cookies, 12 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 2
Steps:
- Mix corn syrup and color in individual bowls.
- Draw your stained glass lines with royal icing, or just go free-hand without lines for a different look.
- Paint a thin coat of cornsyrup mixture on cooled cookies, let dry completely.
- Add a second coat that can be thick as you desire.
- Let dry overnight.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 5.2, Sodium 1.1, Carbohydrate 1.4, Sugar 0.5
STAINED GLASS AND HOLIDAY SPRINKLE COOKIES
Mmm, melt-in-your-mouth sugar cookies! What better way to bring the family together for decorating festivities and sweet enjoyment?
Provided by Betty Crocker Kitchens
Categories Dessert
Time 1h30m
Yield 24
Number Of Ingredients 7
Steps:
- Heat oven to 375°F. In medium bowl, stir cookie mix, butter, egg and flour until dough forms.
- Roll dough on floured surface to about 1/4 inch thick. Cut with cookie cutters. Place 1 inch apart on ungreased cookie sheet. Stained Glass Cookies: Decorate unbaked cookies with gels. Bake 7 to 9 minutes or until light golden brown around edges. Cool 1 minute before removing from cookie sheet; cool completely, about 20 minutes. Holiday Sprinkle Cookies: Bake and cool cookies as directed above. Frost with frosting. Gently press small cookie cutter into frosting on each cookie where you want sugar design; remove and dip bottom edge of cutter into one of the sugars, then gently press back into same stamped image on each cookie and remove cutter.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 110, Carbohydrate 17 g, Cholesterol 15 mg, Fat 1, Fiber 0 g, Protein 1 g, SaturatedFat 2 g, ServingSize 1 Unfrosted Cookie, Sodium 70 mg, Sugar 10 g, TransFat 1 g
STAINED GLASS COOKIES
Provided by Food Network Kitchen
Categories dessert
Time 3h10m
Yield 18 cookies
Number Of Ingredients 6
Steps:
- Cream the butter and sugar in a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment on medium-high speed until smooth, about 2 minutes. Reduce the speed to low and add the eggs 1 at a time, mixing after each addition until fully incorporated. Add the vanilla and then slowly mix in the flour until well combined, scraping down the sides of the bowl as needed. Remove the dough, press into a flat rectangle, wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least 1 hour and up to overnight.
- Position oven racks in the top and bottom thirds of the oven and preheat to 350 degrees F. Line 2 baking sheets with parchment.
- Cut the dough into thirds, wrap 1 piece back in the plastic wrap and return it to the refrigerator. Dust your work surface and the remaining 2 pieces of dough well with flour and roll out each to 3/16 inch with a rolling pin, moving the dough and dusting the top and bottom with additional flour if it becomes sticky. Cut out as many large stars as possible with a 4-inch star cookie cutter and place on the prepared baking sheets. Gather the scraps and reroll once to cut out more cookies. You should have a total of 12 stars. Cut a small star out of the middle of each large star with a 2-inch star cookie cutter and reserve for another use. (You can chill and bake the small stars separately or freeze for later.) Refrigerate the baking sheets until the dough is firm, 15 to 20 minutes.
- Meanwhile, separate the candy by color and place each color in a separate resealable plastic bag. Place a kitchen towel over the bags and crush the candy into small pieces using a rolling pin or meat mallet; do not pulverize. 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 brown and the candy has melted, 12 to 15 minutes. Cool on the baking sheets for 5 minutes before transferring to wire racks to cool completely. Repeat the rolling, cutting, filling and baking process with the remaining piece of dough.
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