Recipe: Delicious Stained glass window biscuits

Stained glass window biscuits. These Christmas stained-glass window biscuits are perfect for hanging on the tree - the lights will twinkle through the 'windows', which are simply melted boiled sweets. Mary Berry's Christmas biscuits look so pretty hung on the tree with their stained glass window centre twinkling in the light. For this recipe you will need a large and small biscuit cutter. Cut out a small circular hole in the centre of each biscuit. Fill each hole with one crushed, clear hard boiled sweet.

This will melt in the oven to create your 'stained glass'. Cube up the butter and place in a mixing bowl with the flour, sugar, clementine zest and cinnamon. Using your fingers, rub the butter into the mix till it resembles fine breadcrumbs. You can cook Stained glass window biscuits using 6 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Stained glass window biscuits

1. It's 100 g of butter.
2. It's 100 g of sugar.
3. You need 200 g of plain flour.
4. Prepare 1 of egg.
5. You need 12 of colourful boiled sweets.
6. Prepare 1 tsp of vanilla essence.

Heat the sugar, golden syrup and butter in a pan until melted. Mix the ginger and flour in a large bowl and make a well in the centre. Add the bicarbonate of soda to the melted mixture and stir - it will fizz a little - then pour into the flour mixture with the egg. Put a different coloured sweet pebble into the middle of each biscuit hole.

Stained glass window biscuits step by step

1. Cream together the sugar and butter.
2. Add the egg and vanilla.
3. Add the flour and work with your hands into a dough. Use a rolling pin to roll it out, be sure to flour your surface..
4. Line a baking tray with grease proof paper. Use two circle cutters to cut your dough into circles with a hole in the middle. Place spaced out on your tray and pop a sweet in the middle of each one..
5. Put in a preheated oven for 10-12 minutes at 180 degrees until the biscuit is brown and sweets have melted..

Using a drinking straw, make a hole in the top of each biscuit - you will need this to hang the biscuits as decorations. Using a teaspoon, carefully fill the star cut-out with the crushed sweets. Stained Glass Biscuits look so pretty with boiled sweets for windows, and are good for Christmas baking with children. The delicate stained glass window biscuits double as pretty decorations STAINED GLASS WINDOW BISCUITS These look incredibly pretty and are great as gifts or to hang as decorations on your Christmas. These look so pretty and are great as gifts or to hang on the Christmas tree.