3/10/2013
St. Patrick's Day Stained Glass Cookies
1 cup unsalted butter, room temperature
3/4 cup sugar
1 large egg yolk
1 t vanilla extract
2 1/4 cups all purpose flour
1/2 t salt
6 oz green hard candies
green color crystal sugar
green color confetti
>how to make<
*Using electric mixer, beat butter and sugar in large bowl until well blended.
*Beat in egg yolk and vanilla.
*Add flour and salt and beat until mixture begins to clump together.
*Divide dough into 3 equal pieces.
*Flatten each piece into disk, wrap each in plastic and chill at least 4 hours or overnight.
*Roll out each dough disk between 2 sheets of parchment paper to 1/4" thickness.
*Transfer rolled out dough disks (still on parchment) to baking sheets and chill 30 minutes.
*Finely grind green hard candies in food processor.
*Transfer candy to a small bowl, cover and set aside.
*Line 2 heavy large rimmed baking sheets with parchment paper.
*Working with 1 rolled out dough disk at a time, peel off top layer of parchment paper; use 3" diameter cookie cutter to cut out cookies.
*Using a clover shapes cookie cutter, make cutouts in center of each cookie.
*Transfer cookies to prepared baking sheets.
*Spoon ground hard candies into cookie cutouts, filling cutouts completely to same thickness as cookies.
*Sprinkle cookies lightly with green sugar.
*Sprinkle clover shaped cookies with green confetti.
*Chill filled cookies on baking sheets 15 minutes.
*Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
*Bake cookies until firm and light golden and ground candies look translucent for 12 minutes.
*Cool cookies completely on baking sheets.
-makes about 2 dozen-
Note: This recipe was adapted from "bon appetit Desserts".
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1 cup unsalted butter, room temperature
3/4 cup sugar
1 large egg yolk
1 t vanilla extract
2 1/4 cups all purpose flour
1/2 t salt
6 oz green hard candies
green color crystal sugar
green color confetti
>how to make<
*Using electric mixer, beat butter and sugar in large bowl until well blended.
*Beat in egg yolk and vanilla.
*Add flour and salt and beat until mixture begins to clump together.
*Divide dough into 3 equal pieces.
*Flatten each piece into disk, wrap each in plastic and chill at least 4 hours or overnight.
*Roll out each dough disk between 2 sheets of parchment paper to 1/4" thickness.
*Transfer rolled out dough disks (still on parchment) to baking sheets and chill 30 minutes.
*Finely grind green hard candies in food processor.
*Transfer candy to a small bowl, cover and set aside.
*Line 2 heavy large rimmed baking sheets with parchment paper.
*Working with 1 rolled out dough disk at a time, peel off top layer of parchment paper; use 3" diameter cookie cutter to cut out cookies.
*Using a clover shapes cookie cutter, make cutouts in center of each cookie.
*Transfer cookies to prepared baking sheets.
*Spoon ground hard candies into cookie cutouts, filling cutouts completely to same thickness as cookies.
*Sprinkle cookies lightly with green sugar.
*Sprinkle clover shaped cookies with green confetti.
*Chill filled cookies on baking sheets 15 minutes.
*Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
*Bake cookies until firm and light golden and ground candies look translucent for 12 minutes.
*Cool cookies completely on baking sheets.
-makes about 2 dozen-
Note: This recipe was adapted from "bon appetit Desserts".
