Stained glass window biscuits

Stained glass window biscuits

These fab biscuits look so pretty with the sweets in the middle of each one. Kids will love making them.

Stained glass window biscuits

  • Serves icon for lots of people
  • Time icon Takes 25 minutes to make and 15-18 minutes to cook, plus cooling

These fab biscuits look so pretty with the sweets in the middle of each one. Kids will love making them.

Ingredients

8-10 pink and yellow boiled sweets
115g butter, softened
55g golden caster sugar
180g plain flour, plus extra for dusting
1 tbsp milk

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Method

1. Preheat the oven to 180°C/fan160°C/ gas 4. Cut pieces of baking paper to fit 2 large baking trays. Put the pink and yellow sweets in separate plastic food bags and use a rolling pin to bash the sweets a few times, so they break up into small pebbles about 1cm big. Set aside.

2. Beat the butter and sugar in a bowl, until pale and creamy. Sift the flour into the mixture, then add the milk. Use your hands to mix everything together into a ball of dough.

3. Sprinkle a little flour over a work surface. Split the dough into 2 pieces. Roll out 1 piece with a floured rolling pin until it is about 5mm thick. Using biscuit cutters (about 8cm x 4cm), cut out Christmas shapes. Using a 1.5cm fluted pastry cutter, cut circles out of the middle of each of the biscuits. Carefully move the cookies to the trays with a fish slice. Repeat with the remaining dough, then re-roll the trimmings to make more biscuits, about 25-30 in total. Put a different coloured sweet pebble into the middle of each biscuit hole. The sweets melt while the biscuits bake to form ‘glass’ windows.

4. Bake for 15-18 minutes, until the biscuits are just golden. Cool on the trays, then transfer to a wire rack. (Make sure the sweets have set hard before removing from the trays.) Store in an airtight container in a cool place for up to 5 days.

delicious. tips

  1. If you’re giving these as presents to hang on the tree, make a small hole near the top of each one once cooked and still warm. Thread ribbon through the holes when cool.

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