Stained Glass Cookies
Shortbread cookies with a hard-candy 'stained glass' center. Servings: about 30 cookies depending on size of the mould.
🍳 Cook: 20 min
Ingredients
| 90 g | flour |
| 60 g | butter at room temperature |
| 30 g | granulated sugar |
| — | hard candy of choice |
Instructions
- Pre-heat the oven to 160 degree Celsius.
- Cream the butter and icing sugar until light and fluffy. Add in the flour, stir until well mixed. Transfer the dough out to a lightly floured surface. Roll the dough into about 5 mm thickness.
- Use your preferred mould to mould the dough. Cut off the centre of the flower (I have use a simple piping nozzle). Bake in the preheated oven of 160 degree Celsius for 10 minutes.
- While the cookies are baking, use something to break the hard candy. When the cookies are ready, take out, put a small amount of hard candies in the cavity at the centre of the cookies. Send back to the oven and bake for another 10 minutes. Let the cookies cooled completely in the baking tray before removing it and store in an air tight container.
Conclusion: This cookie is definitely not a difficult cookie to prepare. It is rather easy and do not ask me where I get my mould.. In fact, any pineapple tarts mould will be able to give you a beautiful design. I got mine in a neighbourhood shop and have been with me for many years. Do play around with the colour and patterns of your mould.