Stained Glass Easter Cookie Recipe
This stained glass Easter cookie recipe is perfect to make for you egg hunt or Easter gathering.
Equipment
Ingredients
- 3 cups all purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 2 sticks butter, softened
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 egg
- ½ teaspoon almond extract
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- Powdered sugar or flour for rolling
- Jolly Rancher hard candies approximately one candy per cookie
- light green candy melts
- light green sprinkles
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Prepare a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- Whisk together dry ingredients: flour, baking powder, and salt. Set aside.
- Cream together butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Mix in the egg, almond extract, and vanilla until smooth. Gradually add dry ingredients, mixing until combined; the dough will be slightly crumbly.
- Place the dough onto a surfaced sprinkled with powdered sugar or flour. Shape it into a ball, and roll it out to ¼ inch thick. Use cookie cutters to cut egg shapes. Gently transfer them to the baking sheet using a spatula to keep their form.
- Sort Jolly Ranchers by color into quart bags, then place those in a gallon bag. Cover with towels and crush using the flat side of a meat mallet; watch for the candy piercing the bags.
- Scoop candy pieces into the cut opening of each cookie. The crushed candy should fill most of the hole and mound a little on top. Depending on the size of your opening, you will use the equivalent of approximately 1 candy for each cookie.
- Bake cookies for 7 to 9 minutes. Do not brown the cookies. Allow cookies to cool for at least 20 minutes on the baking sheet before carefully removing to a cooling rack.
- Store in an airtight container between layers of parchment paper to keep the candy from attaching to the candy in other cookies.
- Melt some light green candy melts according to package instructions. Then dip an edge of the cookie into the melted candy.
- Before the candy hardens, dip the part that has the candy melt on it into some green sprinkles.
- You can even add some decorative flower candy if you'd like.
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Notes
- Do not crush the Jolly Rancher candies prior to use as they will stick to one another and become a hardened mass of candy.
- If the dough is rolled too thin, keeping the cookies together while moving them to a baking sheet will be very difficult. Using a flat cookie spatula will help but make sure the cookie dough is at least ¼ inch.
- Thicker cookies will require more crushed candy.
Nutrition
Calories: 124kcalCarbohydrates: 27gProtein: 2gFat: 1gSaturated Fat: 0.2gPolyunsaturated Fat: 0.1gMonounsaturated Fat: 0.1gTrans Fat: 0.01gCholesterol: 9mgSodium: 70mgPotassium: 71mgFiber: 1gSugar: 11gVitamin A: 16IUCalcium: 24mgIron: 1mg
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