Stained Glass Cookies

3-ingredient stained glass cookies are colorful, tasty, and so simple to make! These cookies taste as great as they look!

Here are a few more cookie recipes we think your kids will love – M&M Chocolate Pudding Cookies, Monster Cookies, and Melted Snowman Cookies.

A Colorful Dessert

Stained glass cookies are a Christmas tradition in many homes and are often seen at holiday parties, cookie exchanges, and hanging on trees as colorful ornaments.

But why limit these fun creations to just one time of year? Using a variety of cookie-cutter shapes, you can make these stained glass cookies for any holiday or celebration!

The colors are super easy to modify, they’re the perfect cookie for any occasion. Here is how to make them –

Items You’ll Need

INGREDIENTS

• 1 roll (16.5 oz) refrigerated sugar cookie dough
• 10 hard candies- I used various colors of Jolly Ranchers
• 1/4 cup all-purpose flour, plus more to work with

YOU WILL ALSO NEED

• rolling pin
• ruler
• cookie cutters in various shapes and sizes (We used 3-inch stars and 1 1/2 inch stars)
• small plastic baggies
• meat tenderizer or mallet

How To Make Stained Glass Cookies

Dough Prep – Grab the roll of cookie dough and put it in a bowl. Next, you’ll break up the roll up into chunks with your hands. Add 1/4 cup of flour and then mix it with your hands or a wooden spoon until it’s well blended.

Flatten – Sprinkle some flour on the counter and then roll the dough so that it’s no more than 1/8 inch thick. Sprinkle more flour on top of the dough to prevent it from sticking. Use a ruler to measure the height so your dough isn’t too thick.

Check The Dough – If your dough is any thicker than 1/8 inch, it will be too fluffy when it bakes and will cover the candy center. This is what happened to this batch of stained glass cookies I made that are pictured above.

Shape – Cut out the dough with your larger cookie cutter shapes. Next, cut the centers out of each cookie with the smaller cookie cutter. You’ll want to place the dough on a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper and space them about 2 inches apart.

Candy – Unwrap 2 candies that are the same color, place them in a small plastic bag and then crush them with the flat side of a mallet. Repeat with remaining candies of different colors.

Fill – Place a small spoonful of crushed candy in the center of each cutout cookie. You’ll want to make sure there is enough candy to touch the edges of the cookie without being a big mound.

Cook – Bake the cookies in the oven for about 7 to 9 minutes at 350 degrees. The edges of the cookies should be golden brown and the candy melted.

Cool – Let the stained glass cookies cool for 10 minutes on the cookie sheet until candy is hardened, then cool completely on a cooling rack. Then serve and enjoy them!

More Easy Cookie Recipes

• Cake Mix Cookie Recipe
• 10 Minute Sugar Cookies
• Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies
• Strawberry Lemonade Cookies
• Oatmeal Turtle Cookies

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Stained Glass Cookies

Servings: 24 cookies

3-ingredient Stained Glass Cookies are colorful, tasty, and so simple to make!

Prep Time:10 minutes mins

Cook Time:9 minutes mins

Ingredients

• 1 16.5 oz roll refrigerated sugar cookie dough
• 10 hard candies, ie. Jolly Ranchers
• 1/4 cup all-purpose flour, plus more to work with

Instructions

• Add the roll of cookie dough to a large bowl and then break up the roll with your hands. Add 1/4 cup of flour and mix with your hands or a wooden spoon until well blended.
  
• Lightly flour your work surface, then roll the dough out to be no more than 1/8 inch thick. If your dough is any thicker than 1/8 inch, it will be too fluffy when it bakes and cover the candy center. Sprinkle additional flour on top of the dough, as needed, to prevent sticking.
  
• Cut out dough with your larger cookie cutter shape, then place the dough on a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper. Cookies should be 2 inches apart.
  
• Cut the centers out of each cookie with the smaller cookie cutter.
  
• Unwrap 2 candies of the same color and place them in a small plastic bag, then crush them with the flat side of a mallet. Repeat with remaining candies of different colors.
  
• Place a small spoonful of crushed candy in the center of each cutout cookie, making sure there is enough candy to touch the edges of the cookie without being a big mound.
  
• Bake in the oven @350 degrees for 7 to 9 minutes or until the edges of the cookies are golden brown and the candy is melted.
  
• Let the cookies cool for 10 minutes on the cookie sheet until candy is hardened, then cool completely on a cooling rack.
  

Equipment

• Rolling Pin
• ruler
• cookie cutters in various shapes and sizes (We used 3-inch stars and 1 1/2 inch stars)
• small plastic baggies
• meat tenderizer or mallet

Nutrition

Serving: 1 g · Calories: 13 kcal · Carbohydrates: 3 g · Protein: 1 g · Fat: 1 g · Saturated Fat: 1 g · Cholesterol: 1 mg · Sodium: 1 mg · Potassium: 1 mg · Fiber: 1 g · Sugar: 1 g · Vitamin A: 1 IU · Calcium: 1 mg · Iron: 1 mg

Other Notes

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Keyword: 3 ingredients, 30 minutes or less, candy, cookies

Cost: $5

This post originally published on Crazy Domestic in January 2011