It wouldn't be Christmas without some serious baking going on around here.
This year I decided to use up some leftover Halloween candy to make stained glass cookies. Basically, you crush up hard candy (in our case, Dum-Dum lollipops) and sprinkle them in cut-out holes in whatever sugar cookie recipe you usually use.
In the oven they get all melty and gooey and bubbly, but once they come out and cool down, the sugar hardens into a pretty center.
Honestly, the pretty parts don't taste that great unless you're using expensive candies, but they sure look nice. We did some oversized ones like this to include with the cookies we're giving to neighbors and friends.
As you can see from the background in that picture, we got a bit of snow earlier this week. Not the 2 feet that are keeping my parents stuck on the east coast, but enough that we've had to go outside to play in it almost every day. There isn't enough for a proper snowman, and until recently it hasn't been the right consistency for snowballs, so we've been stuck with snow angels and tromping around aimlessly ... until now:
Of course, it's supposed to start raining soon, and continue through Christmas day, but it was nice to have snow on some days when we had nowhere we needed to go and nothing that had to be done.
1 comment:
I have seen this type of recipe for years and always mean to try it. The thing is, they look so pretty that I would probably hate to eat them and would end up drying them to use on the tree (and then make a batch without the candy just so I could eat some) :-)lol
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