I had this urge to bake some holiday cookies i know I was going mad but sometimes there is no need of any reasons for a holiday or a festival to come. I had this stained glass cookies in my to do list , wanted to bake them for Christmas but marathon is not less than any festival so I had this cookies in my list too. Stained cookies are one fun baking especially when you have a kid around. These are easily customizable as you can see I converted them to a sunglass cookies .. Don’t they look cool ?? And yeah they are also perfect for summer themed cookie too. Now moving on to the recipe…
Stained Glass Cookie
Category | Preparation time | Cook Time |
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Cookie
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20 mins |
10 -15 mins
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All purpose Flour – 1 1/2 cup
Butter – 1 stick ( 1/2 cup at room temperature )
Baking pd – 1 tsp
Sugar pd – 1/2 cup
Milk – 1 tbsp
Vanilla extract – Few drops
Hard candies ( I used Jolly rancher) – As required
Semi sweet Chocolate Chips – 1 cup
Method
- Separate similar colors of hard candies, in a zip lock put the hard candies and crush them using a rolling pin or a hammer.
- In a bowl cream butter and sugar pd , mix them combined.
- Add All purpose flour, baking pd , vanilla extract and mix them well till it forms a smooth dough.
- Add milk if the mixture is too dry.
- In a floured surface roll the cookie dough and using a cookie cutter.
- Transfer the cookies in a lined cookie tray.
- Use a smaller cookie cutter and cut the middle part of the shaped cookie.
- Add the crushed hard candies in the hole , do not fill it too much only little to cover the hole is sufficient.
- Bake the cookies in a preheat oven for 10 -15 mins or till you see light browning from the corners.
- Once the cookies are done remove and let them cook comepletely on the tray.
- For sunglasses cookies I rolled the cookies cut the earpieces , baked it for 9-10 mins then cool them. For the glass part I took the similar 2 stained cookies.
- Melt semi sweet chocolate in a microwave and pour it in a ziplock.
- Use this melted chocolate as glue and stick the left and right ear piece and also two cookies.
- Be gentle with the sunglass cookie they may break if not glued properly.
Beautiful cookies Manjula. Lovely clicks.
this has been on my to do list..they came out gorgeous!
they look so pretty!! very addictive cookie!!
Beautiful cookies. And that sunglass rocks
lovely cookies..
Wow amazing and those sun glass cookies looks absolutely pretty and damn cute,loving it.
wow… they look amazing dear…
:)) i love those sunglasses Manjula super cute!
Pretty pretty!! Super cute sun glasses
These cookies look stunning Manjula!