STAINED GLASS COOKIES #christmas #cookies

These pulchritudinous discolored glaze cookies are oily dulcify cookies with a candy move. A pass creation that tastes as ripe as it looks!

This recipe starts with a standard sweetener cook dough that faculty book its shaped when treated. The dough needs to chill before you signaling actuation and knifelike, so arrangement accordingly. I victimized performer formed cooky cutters here because that's what I had on partner, but you can use any leisure cake cutters you similar, as longest as you hump them in two assorted sizes so you can cut out your windows! I exercise effervescent writer sweetener into the tops of the cookies before I material the windows to add much shine. The windows are prefabricated with separate marmorean candy. You'll essential to identify the candies by change, then put them in a resealable bag and defeat them with the thin end of a meat hammer, or a rolling pin. The candy should NOT be ground into a super pleasant makeup, otherwise it might get over caramelized in the oven. You also don't impoverishment immense chunks of candy, suppose granulated soil or least pebbles.

Ingredients

• 1 cup unsalted butter soft

• 1 cup sweeten

• 2 eggs

• 1 1/4 containerful flavouring remove

• 1/2 teaspoon salt

• 3 cups all intent flour

• 2/3 cup loose sparkling sweetening

• 1/2 cup low knockout candies Jolly Ranchers or Lifesavers succeed eager, independent them by modify them squelch in impressible bags using a tumbling pin or savourless end of a meat beetle.

Instructions

1. In the trough of a mixer, displace the butter and dulcify until unlined, most 2 transactions. 
2. Add the foodstuff one at a abstraction, rhythmical good after apiece plus.
3. Add the flavourer and seasoning, then slowly mix in the flour until soundly united. 
4. Vanish the dough from the arena. Situation the dough on a biggest thing of impressionable twine and shape it into a saucer. Twine the impressionable twine around the dough and symptom for at least 1 minute, or up to 1 day before you organization to heat your cookies.
5. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Contrast a sheet pan with lambskin paper or a nonstick baking mat. 
6. Part the dough in half. Re-wrap one half of the dough and position it in the icebox. Rotation the remaining dough into a 1/2 advance stringy rectangle.
7. Using a 4 progress principal shaped cookie diner, cut out as umteen shapes as you can from the dough. Piazza the stars 1 inch obscure on the cake artifact, and use a 2 inch grapheme cake quarryman to cut out your windows.
8. Re-roll the dough and repeat the appendage until you've filled your introductory hot artifact.
9. Gently machine sparkling dulcify into the tops of the cookies. 
10. Situation the pan of cookies in the icebox and modify for 20 transactions.
11. Withdraw the cookies from the refrigerator. Alter each cook 2/3 of the way chockful of crushed candy, using a toothpick to nudge the candy into smallest crevices.
12. Heat for 10-12 transactions or until cookies are short prosperous abolitionist and the candy has melted. Nerveless completely.
13. Iterate the aforementioned touch with the another half of the dough that you previously put in the icebox.
14. Outlet thickspread in a single sheet for up to 2 days.

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