Stained Glass Cookies #Christmas #Cookies

Stained glass cookies are an easy holiday cookie to make, plus they are showstoppers!

When I saw that the Tuesdays with Dorie group was making Stained Glass Cookies, I knew these picture perfect cookies would be ideal our annual neighborhood cookie exchange!

Stained Glass Cookies

Perfectly festive cookies for the holidays! Sugar cookie recipe adapted from Alton Brown.

PREP TIME: 40 mins COOK TIME: 8 mins TOTAL TIME: 48 minutes YIELD: 48 CATEGORY: Dessert, Cookies, Holiday METHOD: Baking CUISINE: American

Ingredients

• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 egg
• 1 tablespoon milk
• 1 cup butter, softened
• 1 cup sugar
• 3 cups flour
• 3/4 teaspoon baking powder
• Powdered sugar, for rolling out dough
• Jolly Ranchers candies, separated into colors and smashed into a powder (about 15-20 total)

Instructions

1. Whisk collectively flour, baking powder, and salt. Set apart. In a stand mixer, beat together butter and sugar until mild in coloration. upload egg and milk and beat to combine. With mixer on low pace, slowly add flour, and beat till aggregate pulls away from the side of the bowl. Wrap the dough in plastic wrap and refrigerate for two hours.
2. Preheat oven to 350º.
3. Sprinkle surface in which you'll roll out dough with powdered sugar. Roll out dough to ¼-1/eight-inch thick. reduce into desired shapes. subsequent, find a smaller cookie cutter in the identical identical, then reduce out a center segment of the larger version with a smaller cookie cutter to make a “window”. location the cookies with the cut out approximately 1-inch apart on a parchment lined baking sheet. cautiously spoon some of the overwhelmed Jolly Ranchers into the center of each cookie. Brush any that lands on the dough in the direction of the middle with a dry pastry brush (or clean paint brush).
4. Bake for 7 to 8 mins or till cookies are just starting to show brown round the rims Cool for a couple of minutes on baking sheet, then pass to cooling rack to complete cooling.