Stained Glass Cookies

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prep time

20 min

total time

2 hr 28 min

Makes about 3-1/2 dozen cookies or 42 servings, 1 cookie each.

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recipe by: kraft

What You Need

1/2 cup each: softened butter, sugar and honey

1 egg

1 tsp. vanilla

3 cups flour

1 tsp. Magic Baking Powder

1/2 tsp. each: baking soda and salt

5 rolls (25 g each) ring-shaped hard candies, any colour

Make It

BEAT butter, sugar, honey, egg and vanilla in large bowl with electric mixer on medium speed until well blended. Add flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt; mix well. Cover. Refrigerate at least 2 hours.

PREHEAT oven to 350°F. Roll out dough on lightly floured surface to 1/4-inch thickness. Cut into desired shapes with 2-1/2- to 3-inch floured cookie cutters. Trace smaller version of cookie shape on dough, leaving 1/2- to 3/4-inch border of dough. Cut out and remove dough from centre of each shape; set aside. Place cutouts on foil-lined baking sheets. Shape removed dough centres into ball; re-roll to make additional cutouts.

CRUSH each colour of candy separately between 2 layers of wax paper with mallet; spoon into centres of cutouts.

BAKE 6 to 8 minutes or until candy is melted and cookies are lightly browned. Cool cookies completely before removing from foil.

kraft kitchens tips

Fun Idea

To make these cookies into decorations, use a drinking straw to poke a hold in the top of each cookie cutout. Bake and cool as directed. Decorate as desired and thread a piece of ribbon through the hole to use for hanging.

Cooking Know-How

Do not use mint flavoured ring-shaped hard candy for these cookies. They do not melt the same way the other candy flavours do.