Today's recipe is an old reliable one - basically you combined boiled sweets and sugar cookies.
Here is the recipe we used for the cookies:
Here is the recipe we used for the cookies:
"Makes about 20
200 g unsalted butter, at room temperature
280 g caster sugar
¼ teaspoon vanilla extract
1 egg
400 g plain flour
a pinch of salt
½ teaspoon cream of tartar
shaped biscuit cutters
2 baking trays, lined with greaseproof paper
1. Preheat the oven to 170°C (325°F) Gas 3.
2. Put the butter, sugar and vanilla extract in a freestanding electric mixer with a paddle attachment (or use a handheld electric whisk) and cream until light and fluffy. Add the egg and mix well, scraping any unmixed ingredients from the side of the bowl with a rubber spatula.
3. Add the flour, salt and cream of tartar and mix well, but don’t overmix. The dough should be light, soft and easy to handle.
4. Lightly dust a clean work surface with flour and roll out the dough with a rolling pin. Cut out shapes with your choice of biscuit cutters. "
200 g unsalted butter, at room temperature
280 g caster sugar
¼ teaspoon vanilla extract
1 egg
400 g plain flour
a pinch of salt
½ teaspoon cream of tartar
shaped biscuit cutters
2 baking trays, lined with greaseproof paper
1. Preheat the oven to 170°C (325°F) Gas 3.
2. Put the butter, sugar and vanilla extract in a freestanding electric mixer with a paddle attachment (or use a handheld electric whisk) and cream until light and fluffy. Add the egg and mix well, scraping any unmixed ingredients from the side of the bowl with a rubber spatula.
3. Add the flour, salt and cream of tartar and mix well, but don’t overmix. The dough should be light, soft and easy to handle.
4. Lightly dust a clean work surface with flour and roll out the dough with a rolling pin. Cut out shapes with your choice of biscuit cutters. "
- Hummingbird cafe's Sugar Cookie recipe (http://ireland-guide.com/recipes/sugar_cookies.8169.html)
Basically I followed this and I have taken out what I didnt use from the original (you can see the original by clicking the link)
Once I had cut out Christmas trees from the dough, I used a smaller cutter to make holes to create the stained glass parts of the cookies.
Once I had cut out Christmas trees from the dough, I used a smaller cutter to make holes to create the stained glass parts of the cookies.
You can also use a chopstick to make a hole for threading them onto string to use as tree ornaments!
Put the cookies on the trays.
Jaimee bashed some boiled sweets until they were in tiny bits, and we divided them into separate colours,
then filled the holes in the cookies with the smashed sweets (make sure to put plenty in!)
Bake the cookies until golden and the sweets are melted.
Leave the cookies on the trays to cool entirely as the sweets will be really soft!
yay!
- Bridget
Bake the cookies until golden and the sweets are melted.
Leave the cookies on the trays to cool entirely as the sweets will be really soft!
yay!
- Bridget
I'm in NZ, where did you find boiled sweets? Can you think of any substitues if i can't find any? (i live in New Plymouth and sometimes we don't have what the bigger cities have...)
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