Stained Glass Cookies

Great fun and so easy to make with kids, you can match a colour scheme and you can make them for any occasion (Christmas and a fairy themed party as I seem to recall)…Have fun!

Ingredients:

• 225g/8oz plain flour
• 100g/4oz butter
• 100g/4oz caster sugar
• 1 tbsp milk
• 1/2 tsp mixed spice (optional)
• 10 boiled sweets (of your choice in colour)
• Ribbon for hanging (optional)

 

Instructions:

• Rub butter into flour (and spice, if using) until it looks like breadcrumbs
• Add milk and sugar and knead into dough
• Wrap and chill until needed (or at least 15 mins)
• Roll it out on a floured surface and cut shapes out
• Cut a hole using a smaller cutter or knife (I use wide end of biggest icing nozzle) and a small hole near the top for hanging
• Place on greased/lined baking sheet and add a boiled sweet to each hole
• Bake in oven at 180C/GM4 for 10-15 mins until golden and sweet has melted.
• When cool you can thread ribbon through and hang them up if you wish (great for Christmas decorating or treasure hunts!)

 

Tips:

• This is one of the rare occasions I will use baking parchment as it makes lifting them so much easier…made these once and cracked nearly all of them trying to remove them from pan with a fish slice!
• Don’t make holes too near the edge or cookie mix will split.
• If you have really large sweets or want to mix colours, you can crush sweets first so they can be evenly spread out.
• Change it up with a different cookie dough, use gingerbread or orange zest mix, for example…experiment! 🙂

 

Enjoy! x

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