Stained-Glass Butter Cookies

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Made With QL Eggs

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With melted candy surrounded by dough to resemble stained glass windows, these delicious butter cookies look fabulous hanging on Christmas trees. It may take a little effort but it will be well worth the delighted faces of people seeing them for the first time.

For this stained-glass butter cookies recipe we have used QL Omega eggs. These delicious eggs contain more than 10 essential vitamins and minerals, including Omega-3 and DHA for heart health.

Preparation time1 hour

Cooking time15 minutes

Makes3 dozens

Ingredients

For cookie dough

500 g plain flour

3/4 tsp baking powder

1/4 tsp salt

230 g unsalted butter, softened

200 g fine sugar

4QL Omega eggs

1/2 tbsp vanilla essence

220 g hard candy in various colours, finely crushed

For royal icing decoration (optional)

30 g QL Omega egg whites

180 g icing sugar, sifted

Method

For cookie dough: Mix flour, baking powder, and salt together in a bowl. Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Then add in QL Omega eggs and vanilla essence and mix until well combined. Add in flour mixture, combine well to form a dough. Keep in the chiller for 20 minutes.
Preheat oven to 170 degrees. Roll out dough between parchment papers to 8mm thickness. With a 3” Christmas-tree-shaped or a 3” hexagon star-shaped cutter, cut out dough. Place cookies an inch apart from one another, on a parchment lined baking tray. With 1cm and 5mm round-shaped cutters, cut out dough randomly on Christmas-tree shaped cookies. With a 1.5” star-shaped cutter, cut out dough on the centre of hexagon star-shaped cookies.
Bake until cookies are pale for 10 minutes, remove from oven and fill cutouts with crushed candy. Bake until cookies until light golden brown and candy is melted, 5 minutes. Let cool on baking sheets on wire racks.
For royal icing: (optional) Mix QL Omega egg white with icing sugar until well combined. Fill royal icing into a small piping bag and cut out a small round tip at the end and pipe out line and small ball shapes to decorate (as desired) on the cooled stained-glass cookies. Let dry completely for 6 hours or overnight.