This week I thought we would make some biscuits using one of our favourite Christmas recipes. We made stained glass cookies, although I didn’t write it up as I ran out of time. They were so cute though and I liked the dough recipe we used which didn’t need chilling in the fridge. So it seemed perfect to use for Valentine’s cookies.

Ingredients To Make Stained Glass Sugarcookies

• 50 g (2oz) sugar
• 50g (20z) butter
• 1/2 egg
• 115g (4.5 oz) plain flour
• 15g (0.5oz) cornflour (cornstarch)
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla essence
• red boiled sweets

Method For Making Stained Glass Sugarcookies

• Cream the sugar and butter.
• Beat the egg into a separate bowl. Gradually mix half  in with the butter and sugar.
• Sift the flour and cornflour in to the mixture and beat together with the vanilla essence.
• Form  into a dough and roll out until 5mm (1/4 inch) thick.
• Use a large cutter to cut into heart shapes using a small heart cutter in the middle.
• Put the boiled sweets into a bag and beat into fine crumbs. Put into the middle of the heart. You can use a solid sweet which did work at Christmas for me but when I tried this time leaked over the side – I think because my heart shaped cutter for the centre was too small.
• Use a drinking straw to make small circles so the biscuits can be hung up.
• Bake for about 20 minutes at 180 C, 350 F, gas mark 4
• You can decorate with white icing if you wish – although they look lovely plain.

Presenting your Stained Glass Sugarcookies

Hang with ribbon to make them into edible decorations or place them on some beautiful crockery.