These cookies have open spaces filled with crushed hard candy (bright colors work best). When baked, the candy melts and the cookie becomes a lovely stained glass window.
We don’t recommend eating them, they are mostly for decoration. They can be eaten, but the melted candy gets very hard.
Ingredients
2/3 cup butter or margarine
1 cup granulated sugar
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 large eggs
3 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/3 cup milk
40 pieces of colored hard candy
Directions
- Preheat oven to 350F. Grease cookie sheets very well or line with parchment paper.
- In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar. Stir in vanilla and eggs.
- In another bowl, sift together flour, baking powder and salt; add to egg mixture alternately with milk.
- On a lightly floured surface, roll the dough 1/4 inch thick. Cut into 1/4- to 1/2-inch wide strips and, on a well-buttered baking sheet, form into window frames (not pictured). Alternately, cut with graduated cookie cutters so that there is a hole in the middle of each cookie (pictured).
- Keeping the colors separate, place candy in plastic bags and crush into small bits. Place crushed candies inside window frames.
- Bake for six minutes, or until candy is just melted. Cool on baking sheet for 5 minutes, until candy is hard. Carefully lift cookies off baking sheet with spatula.
