Stained Glass Sugarcookies
This week I thought we would make some biscuits using one of our favourite Christmas recipes. We made stained glass cookies, although I didn’t write it up as I ran out of time. They were so cute though and I liked the dough recipe we used which didn’t need chilling in the fridge. So it seemed perfect to use for Valentine’s cookies.
Ingredients
50 g (2oz) sugar
50g (20z) butter
1/2 egg
115g (4.5 oz) plain flour
15g (0.5oz) cornflour (cornstarch)
1/2 teaspoon vanilla essence
red boiled sweets
Method
Cream the sugar and butter.
Beat the egg into a separate bowl. Gradually mix half in with the butter and sugar.
Sift the flour and cornflour in to the mixture and beat together with the vanilla essence.
Form into a dough and roll out until 5mm (1/4 inch) thick.
Use a large cutter to cut into heart shapes using a small heart cutter in the middle.
Put the boiled sweets into a bag and beat into fine crumbs*. Put into the middle of the heart.
Use a drinking straw to make small circles so the biscuits can be hung up.
Bake for about 20 minutes at 180 C, 350 F, gas mark 4
You can decorate with white icing if you wish – although they look lovely plain.
Hang with ribbon.
*You can use a solid sweet which did work at Christmas for me but when I tried this time leaked over the side – I think because my heart shaped cutter for the centre was too small.
what a fantastic project
rebecca you are so clever and i love how you have displayed them! i have wanted to make stained glass biscuits for ages but still havent!
thanks for linking up too x x
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Mmmmmm, these would work brilliantly in my Valentine’s card.
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Haven’t made these for ages and never for valentines – what an excellent idea! We used to make little ones when the kids were little and hang them on the tree – until the dog pulled the tree over and ate them all!
So pretty and effective. I used boiled sweets in my Haunted Ginger Bread House but had forgotten how effective it is. Hearts are perfect and your pictures show them off so well.
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Thank you – I haven’t tried a Ginger bread house – I must attempt it at Christmas!
I love these, so pretty. We’ve never made nay, but I think my kids would love them.
Thanks for linking to Science Sparks xx
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