Stained Glass Cookies

photo by:kraft

For a fun family activity, fill the centers of cutout cookies with crushed hard candies. The candies melt during baking to resemble stained glass.

time

prep:

1 hr

total:

3 hr 8 min

servings

total:

About 4 dozen cookies or 24 servings, 2 cookies each

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what you need

1/2

cup (1 stick) butter or margarine, softened

1/2

cup sugar

1/2

cup honey

egg

tsp. vanilla

cups flour

tsp. CALUMET Baking Powder

1/2

tsp. baking soda

1/2

tsp. salt

rolls (1-1/4 oz. each) ring-shaped hard candies

Make It

BEAT butter, sugar, honey, egg and vanilla in large bowl with electric mixer on medium speed until well blended. Add flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt; mix well. Cover. Refrigerate at least 2 hours.

PREHEAT oven to 350°F. Place dough on lightly floured surface; roll out to 1/4-inch thickness. Cut into desired shapes with 2-1/2- to 3-inch floured cookie cutters. Trace smaller version of each cookie shape on dough, leaving 1/2- to 3/4-inch border of dough. Cut out and remove dough from center of each shape; set aside. Place cutouts on baking sheets covered with foil. Shape remaining dough into ball; re-roll to make additional cutouts.

CRUSH each color of candy separately between 2 layers of wax paper with mallet. Spoon crushed candy inside centers of cutouts.

BAKE 6 to 8 minutes or until candy is melted and cookies are lightly browned. Cool cookies completely before removing from foil.

Kraft Kitchens Tips

How to Make Cookies into Ornaments

Before baking cookies, use a drinking straw to poke a hole in the top of each cookie cutout. Bake and cool as directed. Thread a piece of ribbon through the hole to use for hanging.

Storage Know-How

Cookie dough can be wrapped tightly and refrigerated up to 1 week, or placed in freezer container and frozen up to 3 months.

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a cook

posted:12/3/2002

Wow, what a presentation!

a cook

posted:10/18/2002

This is a big hit around the holidays but it is very time consuming to make.

a cook

posted:4/5/2002

The cookies do look nice when made but they are alot of work also. My kids found that the centers were bitter and they were hard to eat. The cookies also burn very easily if not watched closely. I would not recommend making these unless you have some time on your hands.

~kitty~

posted:1/30/2002

The cookies were excelent! Good job, and keep up the great recipes!!!