This Christmas Snowflake Stained Glass Cookies Recipe is really tasty and fun to serve up at your holidays parties!
Christmas Snowflake Stained Glass Cookies
Now, these Stained Glass Christmas Cookies may look like they're something out of a fancy bakery, but they are actually quite simple to make - they aren't even that time consuming, to be quite honest. They are just so darned cute that they just SEEM really fancy!
These cookies would be a great hostess gift, addition to your holiday potluck table, or as a gift for your neighbors. Homemade is always best, as they say!
One thing to note: I used blue and purple Jolly Rancher candies. Initially I mixed them, thinking I'd make this cool stained glass feature, but the two colors just combined and made a brown color.
Are you looking for other Christmas Dessert recipes to serve like my Stained Glass Christmas Cookies Recipe?
Check out these wonderfully easy Christmas Dessert recipes that I have shared over the years, like this fabulous Hot Cocoa Cookies Recipe for Santa Claus.
How to Make This Christmas Snowflake Stained Glass Cookies Recipe
Ingredients needed to make this Christmas Snowflake Stained Glass Cookies Recipe
- 1 cup, 2 sticks, butter
- 1 cup white sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 3 cups all purpose flour
- 4 blue and 4 purple hard candies
- white decorating sugar
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Directions for making this Christmas Snowflake Stained Glass Cookies Recipe
Preheat your oven to 350. Place one color of the candies into a resealable sandwich bag and seal shut.
Place between a towel and use a rolling pin to crush the candies.
Cream butter and sugar together in a bowl with a mixer until fluffy, about 3-5 minutes.
Add eggs and beat well.
Add vanilla and beat.
Beat in flour, 1 cup at a time, just until combined.
Fold dough onto plastic wrap and flatten. Refrigerate for an hour, or up to 24 hours.
Remove from fridge and divide dough into thirds. Roll dough onto a floured surface with a rolling pin until about ¼" thick.
Use a snowflake cookie cutter to cut out dough.
Use an apple corer to cut out the center.
Place cookies onto a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Fill each center cavity with about ½ teaspoon crushed candies.
Bake at 3450 degrees for 5-9 minutes, or until set and edges just begin to brown.
Cool on pan for 5 minutes and remove to a cooling rack to finish cooling.
This Stained Glass Christmas Cookies Recipe makes 48 cookies.
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Christmas Snowflake Stained Glass Cookies Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 cup 2 sticks, butter
- 1 cup white sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 3 cups white flour
- 4 blue and 4 purple hard candies
- white decorating sugar
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Place one color of the candies into a resealable sandwich bag and seal shut. Place between a towel and use a rolling pin to crush the candies.
- Cream butter and sugar together in a bowl with a mixer until fluffy, about 3-5 minutes.
- Add eggs and beat well.
- Add vanilla and beat.
- Beat in flour, 1 cup at a time, jsut until combined.
- Fold dough onto plastic wrap and flatten. Refrigerate for an hour, or up to 24 hours.
- Remove from fridge and divide dough into thirds. Roll dough onto a floured surface with a rolling pin until about ¼" thick.
- Use a snowflake cookie cutter to cut out dough.
- Use an apple corer to cut out the center.
- Place cookies onto a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
- Fill each center cavity with about ½ teaspoon crushed candies.
- Bake for 5-9 minutes or until set and edges just begin to brown.
- Cool on pan for 5 minutes and remove to a cooling rack to finish cooling.
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Are you looking for some fun crafts for the kids to make this holiday season? All of these are pretty simple to make, use very affordable supplies and the best part? They are all pretty perfect for gift giving! We all love homemade gifts, right? Just think of how much pressure we will take of ourselves if we commit to making homemade gifts this holiday season!
Spread the word, tell your friends! Baked goods or homemade gifts ONLY for the adults! That is what we do in our family, as it is just so big, no one can afford to give 20+ gifts each year, plus to their friends, charitable donations, etc.
Beth says
Hi Jenn! These cookies are absolutely stunning!! I have already ordered and received the snowflakes set of cutters. I just have one question. How did you get the sparkling white sugar on the snowflake part of the cookie? Did you sprinkle on regular sugar before you baked? Or after? That touch really adds a lot to the cookie! Thanks for your help!! Beth
Kim Beaulieu says
These are such cute cookies. Can't wait to try them!