These stained glass sugar cookies are a fun holiday cookie to make with the kids. A little bit time consuming so make sure you have some helpers!
Ingredients
Basic Sugar Cookies:
1cupUnsalted Butter
1cupSugar
1Egg
1tbspVanilla Extract
3cupsAll-Purpose Flour
¾tspBaking Powder
¼tspSalt
Green decorating sugar
40assorted hard candies, for melting
Instructions
Cream together butter and sugar in a bowl with a hand mixer or with a stand mixer using the paddle attachment. Mix until light and fluffy. Then add egg and vanilla extract.
Whisk together dry ingredients in a small bowl and slowly add them to the creamed butter. Try not to overmix.
When dough comes together divide it into two flat discs and wrap in plastic wrap. Chill in the fridge for at least 30 minutes but overnight is best.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Roll dough out until 1/4 inch thick. Cut out cookies and place on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Dust with green decorating sugar and then use a straw to poke out holes in cookies.
Bake cookies for 8 minutes.
To finish cookies, divide hard candies (I like jolly ranchers) by color and crush in a few bags. When cookies come out of the oven, add some crushed candy to each cookie in the holes you punched earlier.
Return to oven for 2 minutes to melt hard candy.
Let cookies cool on the baking sheets with parchment paper for best results and then transfer to rack to finish cooling.