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These Valentine Stained Glass Cookies are a melt in your mouth sugar cookie and beautifully decorated with Jolly Rancher candies to make it look just like stained glass! These jolly rancher stained glass heart cookies are super cute and perfect to make for your special someone or to give as a pretty edible gift!
Trying to think of a beautiful dessert to make? Well, look no further because my Valentine Stained Glass Cookies are absolutely gorgeous.
You wouldn’t even believe this, but you know that “stained glass” center to my cookies? They’re made from Jolly Rancher candies. Isn’t that genius?! And so much more simple than you may think.
Baking doesn’t have to be intimidating. I was first introduced to stained glass cookies at a bake sale and I immediately thought, “I would never be able to make those!”
Well now I know, I should never doubt myself!
My recipe for Valentine Stained Glass cookies is so easy to make. What’s best is that stained glass cookies don’t only have to be for V-day! They’re perfect to make year-round. You can change-up the shape to have them fit the holiday you’re baking for.
Ingredients Needed To Make Valentine Stained Glass Cookies
- granulated sugar
- Egg
- unsalted butter
- vanilla extract
- all-purpose flour + extra for rolling
- baking powder
- Pinch salt
- Jolly Rancher candies
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How To Make Stained Glass Cookies
In a large bowl, beat together sugar and egg until creamy. Add butter and vanilla extract and mix until all ingredients are well incorporated with one another. In a small bowl, sift together flour, baking powder, and salt. Slowly add dry ingredients into wet ingredients and mix until cookie dough forms.
Wrap cookie dough with plastic and chill in the refrigerator for at least one hour. Remove cookie dough from refrigerator and dust a smooth, clean surface with flour. Cover rolling pin with flour and roll out the cookie dough so that it’s about ¼ of an inch thick. Using a heart-shaped cookie cutter (about 2 ½ inches at its widest), cut out 15-18 heart-shaped cookies. Place each one gently on the lined baking sheet.
Unwrap candies and place them in a zip-up sandwich bag. Use a heavy item (marble rolling pin, meat mallet, etc.) to break them up into small pieces. Using a miniature heart-shaped cookie cutter (about 1 inch in size), cut out a heart-shaped hole in the middle of each cookie. Fill up the heart-shaped cavity with crushed candy.
Place the pan of cookies back into the refrigerator and allow to chill for another 15 minutes. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Bake cookies for 12 to 14 minutes. Allow cooling on a wire rack before serving. Enjoy!
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Valentine Stained Glass Cookies
These Valentine Stained Glass Cookies are a melt in your mouth sugar cookie and beautifully decorated with Jolly Rancher candies to make it look just like stained glass! These jolly rancher stained glass heart cookies are super cute and perfect to make for your special someone or to give as a pretty edible gift!
Ingredients
- ½ cup granulated sugar
- 1 large egg, room temperature
- ½ cup unsalted butter, 1 stick, room temperature
- ½ tsp vanilla extract
- 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour + extra for rolling
- 1 tsp baking powder
- Pinch salt
- 8-9 Jolly Rancher candies, a mix of cherry and watermelon - or, other hard, translucent candies in red or pink
Instructions
- In a large bowl, beat together sugar and egg until creamy.
- Add butter and vanilla extract and mix until all ingredientsare well incorporated with one another.
- In a small bowl, sift together flour, baking powder andsalt.
- Slowly add dry ingredients into wet ingredients and mixuntil cookie dough forms.
- Wrap cookie dough with plastic and chill in the refrigeratorfor at least one hour.
- Remove cookie dough from refrigerator and dust a smooth,clean surface with flour.
- Cover rolling pin with flour and roll out the cookie doughso that it’s about ¼ of an inch thick.
- Using a heart-shaped cookie cutter (about 2 ½ inches at itswidest), cut out 15-18 heart-shaped cookies. Place each one gently on the lined baking sheet.
- Unwrap candies and place in a zip-up sandwich bag. Use aheavy item (marble rolling pin, meat mallet, etc.) to break them up into small pieces.
- Using a miniature heart-shaped cookie cutter (about 1 inchin size), but out a heart-shaped hole in the middle of each cookie.
- Fill up the heart-shaped cavity with crushed candy.
- Place the pan of cookies back into the refrigerator and allow to chill for another 15 minutes.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Bake cookies for 12 to 14 minutes. Allow to cool on a wire rack before serving. Enjoy!
Nutrition Information:
Yield:
15Serving Size:
1 gramsAmount Per Serving: Calories: 154Total Fat: 7gSaturated Fat: 4gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 2gCholesterol: 29mgSodium: 49mgCarbohydrates: 22gFiber: 0gSugar: 11gProtein: 2g
Nutritional information is automatically calculated with ingredients and serving size and may not be accurate. Please always double check with your own nutritional apps as well.
tom lincoln
Saturday 25th of January 2020
Very unique and different idea.