With melted candy surrounded by dough to resemble stained glass windows, these delicious butter cookies look fabulous hanging on Christmas trees. It may take a little effort but it will be well worth the delighted faces of people seeing them for the first time.
For this stained-glass butter cookies recipe we have used QL Omega eggs. These delicious eggs contain more than 10 essential vitamins and minerals, including Omega-3 and DHA for heart health. Plus, every egg has up to 50% lower cholesterol than ordinary store-bought eggs.
Preparation time: 1 hour
Cooking time: 15 minutes
Makes: 3 dozens
Ingredients
For cookie dough: | ||
|---|---|---|
| 500 g | plain flour | |
| 3/4 tsp | baking powder | |
| 1/4 tsp | salt | |
| 230 g | unsalted butter, softened | |
| 200 g | fine sugar | |
| 4 | QL Omega eggs | |
| 1/2 tbsp | vanilla essence | |
| 220 g | hard candy in various colours, finely crushed | |
For royal icing decoration: (optional) | ||
| 30 g | QL Omega egg whites | |
| 180 g | icing sugar, sifted | |
Method
- For cookie dough: Mix flour, baking powder, and salt together in a bowl. Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Then add in QL Omega eggs and vanilla essence and mix until well combined. Add in flour mixture, combine well to form a dough. Keep in the chiller for 20 minutes.
- Preheat oven to 170 degrees. Roll out dough between parchment papers to 8mm thickness. With a 3” Christmas-tree-shaped or a 3” hexagon star-shaped cutter, cut out dough. Place cookies an inch apart from one another, on a parchment lined baking tray. With 1cm and 5mm round-shaped cutters, cut out dough randomly on Christmas-tree shaped cookies. With a 1.5” star-shaped cutter, cut out dough on the centre of hexagon star-shaped cookies.
- Bake until cookies are pale for 10 minutes, remove from oven and fill cutouts with crushed candy. Bake until cookies until light golden brown and candy is melted, 5 minutes. Let cool on baking sheets on wire racks.
- For royal icing: (optional) Mix QL Omega egg white with icing sugar until well combined. Fill royal icing into a small piping bag and cut out a small round tip at the end and pipe out line and small ball shapes to decorate (as desired) on the cooled stained-glass cookies. Let dry completely for 6 hours or overnight.
QL Omega & QL Deli Fresh eggs are available at major hypermarkets and supermarkets. For more information on QL Eggs, click here.
