Stained Glass Easter Cookies
Easter recipes are so much fun! And how pretty are these Stained Glass Easter Cookies? They look fancy, but I’m excited to share that they are really easy to make and your kids will have so much fun helping you!
Stained Glass Easter Cookies
I love that these cookies not only look fancy, but they’ll be a lovely addition to your Easter holiday table. They almost even look like Easter decorations, they are so pretty!
Ingredients for Jolly Rancher Stained Glass Easter Cookies
- 3 cups all purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 2 sticks (1 cup) butter, softened
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 egg
- ½ teaspoon almond extract
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- Powdered sugar or flour, for rolling
- Jolly Rancher hard candies, approximately one candy per cookie
How to Make Jolly Rancher Stained Glass Easter Cookies
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Prepare a baking sheet with parchment paper.
Whisk together dry ingredients: flour, baking powder, and salt. Set aside.
In a mixing bowl, blend the butter and sugar until creamy and light.
Add egg, almond extract, and vanilla extract. Mix well.
Slowly add dry ingredients and mix until combined. Dough may be a little crumbly.
Turn out the dough onto a surfaced sprinkled with powdered sugar or flour. Press into a ball and then roll out to ¼ inch thickness.
Egg shaped or oval cookie cutters work great to create shapes.
Use a smaller circular item to create holes in your cookies. (this is where the candy will go)
We used the reverse side of a frosting tip to make the perfect sized holes in our cookies.
You can also use a knife to cut different shapes.
Carefully lift shaped cookies to the baking sheet.
Using a flat spatula is recommended to help the cookies maintain their shape.
How to Crush Jolly Rancher Candy for Melting
Separate Jolly Rancher hard candies by color and place inside a quart-sized freezer bag.
Place all bags into a larger gallon-sized freezer bag. Sandwich the gallon-sized freezer bag between two towels and beat candies with the flat side of a meat mallet until crushed.
Candy will pierce BOTH bags so be prepared.
Scoop candy pieces into the cut opening of each cookie. The crushed candy should fill most of the hole and mound a little on top.
Depending on the size of your opening, you will use the equivalent of approximately 1 candy for each cookie.
Bake cookies for 7 to 9 minutes. Do not brown the cookies. Allow cookies to cool for at least 20 minutes on the baking sheet before carefully removing to a cooling rack.
Now it’s time to decorate your cookies!!
We like to use green sprinkles to make it look like they are sitting in the grass. To do this, dip in frosting and then dip into the sprinkles. Get creative, we also like fun flower shaped sprinkles.
Store in an airtight container between layers of parchment paper to keep the candy from attaching to the candy in other cookies.
Important Stained Glass Cookie Tips
Do not crush the Jolly Rancher candies prior to using as they will adhere to one another and become a hardened mass of candy.
Also, if the dough is rolled too thin, keeping the cookies together while moving them to a baking sheet will be very difficult. Using a flat cookie spatula will help but make sure the cookie dough is at least ¼ inch.
Thicker cookies will require more crushed candy. A basting brush can help keep the tiny piece of candy inside the cookie opening.
More Easter DIY Craft and Recipe Ideas
We love holiday themed crafts and recipes!
If you do too, make sure to check out our other Easter ideas, I’m sure you’ll find several that you will love as well:
Carrot Shaped Snack Bag for Kids
How to Make a Bunny Mask out of a Paper Plate
These fun ideas and more can be found on my blog! I think they’ll add so much fun to your Easter celebration!
Print the Recipe for these Stained Glass Easter Cookies
Stained Glass Easter Cookies
Perfect for Easter, these stained glass Easter egg cookies look like works of art! Use Jolly Rancher candy to make the pretty stained glass effect and these fun egg shaped cookies will be a hit for your holiday celebration!
Ingredients
- 3 cups all purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 2 sticks (1 cup) butter, softened
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 egg
- ½ teaspoon almond extract
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- Powdered sugar or flour, for rolling
- Jolly Rancher hard candies, approximately one candy per cookie
Instructions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Prepare a baking sheet with parchment paper.
Whisk together dry ingredients: flour, baking powder, and salt. Set aside.
In a mixing bowl, blend the butter and sugar until creamy and light. Add egg, almond extract, and vanilla extract. Mix well. Slowly add dry ingredients and mix until combined. Dough may be a little crumbly.
Turn out the dough onto a surfaced sprinkled with powdered sugar or flour. Press into a ball and then roll out to ¼ inch thickness. Use cookie cutters to create shapes. Carefully lift shaped cookies to the baking sheet. Using a flat spatula is recommended to help the cookies maintain their shape.
Separate Jolly Rancher hard candies by color and place inside a quart-sized freezer bag. Place all bags into a larger gallon-sized freezer bag. Sandwich the gallon-sized freezer bag between two towels and beat candies with the flat side of a meat mallet until crushed. Candy will pierce BOTH bags so be prepared.
Scoop candy pieces into the cut opening of each cookie. The crushed candy should fill most of the hole and mound a little on top. Depending on the size of your opening, you will use the equivalent of approximately 1 candy for each cookie.
Bake cookies for 7 to 9 minutes. Do not brown the cookies. Allow cookies to cool for at least 20 minutes on the baking sheet before carefully removing to a cooling rack.
Notes
Store in an airtight container between layers of parchment paper to keep the candy from attaching to the candy in other cookies.
Do not crush the Jolly Rancher candies prior to using as they will adhere to one another and become a hardened mass of candy.
Also, if the dough is rolled too thin, keeping the cookies together while moving them to a baking sheet will be very difficult. Using a flat cookie spatula will help but make sure the cookie dough is at least ¼ inch.
Thicker cookies will require more crushed candy. A basting brush can help keep the tiny piece of candy inside the cookie opening.
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Your recipe does not mention cutting holes in the cookies