Cookie Hacks

By Joelene

Ingredients

• Christmas Wreath Icing:
• Cookie Cutter Fudge:
• give the whole thing as a gift!

Preparation

Step 1

Stained Glass Cookies:
Crush up hard candies (we used blue on the show, but you can use any color) in ziptop bags using a rolling pin. Roll out your favorite sugar cookie dough on a floured surface. Using 2 cookie cutters--one large and one small--first cut out the larger shapes, then cut out the smaller shapes within the larger shapes (the smaller shapes are for your stained glass window!). On the show, we used large and small stars of David for Hanukkah, but use whatever shapes you'd like.

Transfer the cookies, with their middles cut out, to a parchment-lined baking sheet sprayed with cooking spray. Drop about 1/2 teaspoon of the crushed hard candies into the hole in each cookie's center. Bake according to your recipe instructions. Cool for at least 5 minutes, then remove from the sheet with the back end of a metal spatula.