Beautiful Stained Glass Cookies with Jolly Ranchers
These beautiful stained glass cookies are so easy to make. I baked these with crushed hard candy (Jolly Ranchers). Watch the video tutorial by joining my Cookie Art Club!
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If you’re looking for stained glass cookies with sprinkles inside, take a look at this tutorial from my friend Haniela. She demonstrated this technique in a recent live video.
Here’s what you’ll need to make these beautiful stained glass cookies with Jolly Ranchers
- Chilled sheet of cookie dough*
- Hard candy such as Jolly Ranchers
- Snowflake cookie cutters
- Mini snowflake cookie cutter (I’ve had my mini snowflake cutter for years and I don’t remember where it came from. This set from R&M has a similar cutter.)
- Parchment paper or silicone mat
- Baking sheet
- Flood consistency royal icing (15-20 second count)
- Tipless piping bag
*I used this recipe from Robin Hood. I made a half batch and added ½ teaspoon of salt and 1 teaspoon of Butter Vanilla Bakery Emulsion. I replaced the cake flour with all-purpose flour.
Instructions
- Cut the cookies from a chilled sheet of cookie dough and place them onto a lined baking sheet. Use the mini cutter to cut holes in the cookies.
- Place hard candy (I used Jolly Ranchers) into a zip top bag and lay a dish towel on top. Crush the candy with a rolling pin.
- Fill the holes in the cookies with the crushed candy.
- Bake the cookies at 350˚ Fahrenheit for 10-12 minutes.
- Allow the cookies to cool completely before removing them from the tray.
- Use flood consistency royal icing in a tipless decorating bag to pipe decorations on the cookies.
Read my Ultimate Guide To Royal Icing to learn all about royal icing consistencies.
This recipe is too fragile to turn these into stained glass cookie ornaments, but you can see my cookie ornament tutorial here.
