These cookies are fun and easy to make, and you can hang them on the tree or use them as stocking stuffers!
- jeanne
Materials: Sugar cookie dough (you can get refrigerated dough at the supermarket); rolling pin; flour; holiday cookie cutters; spatula; waxed parchment paper or baking sheets; cookie trays; knife; hard candy (pick out holiday or jewel-like colored candy); plastic baggie; hammer; powdered sugar; ornament hooks; colored cellophane to wrap as gifts.
Instructions: 1. Roll out the sugar cookie dough on a floured surface.
2. Cut cookies into the shapes of bells, stars, trees or hearts.
3. Line baking trays with waxed baking paper and dust very lightly with flour.
4. Gently lift cookies with a spatula from the floured surface and place them on baking trays.
5. Cut little pieces out of the cookies on your baking tray; try various shapes and sizes, such as stars or mini Christmas trees.
6. Put the hard candy in a plastic baggie and, using a hammer or other hard object, smash it into pieces.
7. Take out a few pieces of broken candy and sprinkle into the holes you have cut in your cookies.
8. Bake cookies at 325 degrees for 10 to 15 minutes, or until dough has a golden color and the candy has completely melted. Do not overcook, or the candy might burn!
9. Remove the trays from the oven and let cool completely. The melted candy will harden to form transparent, stained-glass-like "windows" in your cookies.
10. To serve, dust cookies with powdered snow-like confectioner's sugar. Or you can insert a wire ornament hook into the top of each cookie and hang them on your Christmas tree!
Sugar cookie dough (you can get refrigerated dough at the supermarket); rolling pin; flour; holiday cookie cutters; spatula; waxed parchment paper or baking sheets; cookie trays; knife; hard candy (pick out holiday or jewel-like colored candy); plastic baggie; hammer; powdered sugar; ornament hooks; colored cellophane to wrap as gifts.
