Stained glass cookies. In a large mixing bowl, cream butter, brown sugar and molasses until smooth. Stir together flour, baking soda, salt, and spices. Gradually add flour mixture to creamed mixture; blend well. Stained Glass Cookies are sure to impress people of all ages! These crisp buttery cookies are cut into festive shapes and filled with hard candies, then they're baked and the candy melts into an even layer for a beautiful stained glass effect.

A delicious cookie to add to the cookie tray this year, and save a few for the Christmas tree or window! Remove sheets from oven; fill cutouts with crushed candy. Pour in the vanilla and mix to combine. You can have Stained glass cookies using 9 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Stained glass cookies

It's 2 ,1/2 cups of all purpose flour.
It's 1 1/2 teaspoons of corn flour.
It's 1/2 teaspoon of baking powder.
Prepare 2/3 cup of butter.
It's 2/3 cup of powdered sugar.
Prepare 1 of egg.
Prepare 1 teaspoon of vanilla essence.
Prepare 10 pieces of orange candy.
It's 10 pieces of black currant candy.

It was time for our annual neighborhood cookie exchange and I needed a new recipe to try! Knowing that Dorie Greenspan had a recipe for stained glass cookies that my "Dorista" pals were. These beautiful stained glass cookies are buttery sugar cookies with a candy center. A holiday classic that tastes as good as it looks!

Stained glass cookies instructions

In a large mixing bowl combine the soft butter and powdered sugar. Mix it using a whisk and beat until it's light and creamy..
To this add vanilla essence and egg. Mix it well..
In another bowl take the flour, corn flour and baking powder. Mix it properly..
Add the flour mixture to the butter mixture and mix it all really well using a spatula. Do not over mix. Mix until it all comes together to form a dough..
Wrap the dough with plastic wrap and let it sit in the fridge for 30 minutes..
Sprinkle some dry flour on a clean, flat surface and roll out the dough. Cut the cookies using a heart shaped cookie cutter. Cut out the center using a smaller heart shaped cookie cutter..
Brush the baking dish with soyabean oil and line it with baking paper. Place the cookies on the paper..
Grind the orange and black currant candies separately..
Fill the cavities of the cookies with the ground candies..
Bake these cookies in a preheated oven on 180°c for 10 minutes..
Let the cookies cool on a cooling rack and store in an airtight container..

If you've never made stained glass window cookies before, this is the year you need to try. Remove the chilled cookies from the fridge and use smaller cookie cutters or a sharp knife to cut shapes for the stained glass. Use a toothpick to nudge out any stubborn cutouts left behind. Next, use a tapered offset spatula or the tip of a small knife to fill in the cutouts with your crushed candy. Mix sugar, shortening, vanilla and eggs in large bowl.