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Stained-glass Christmas cookies

These low-cost cookies look impressive hanging on your Christmas tree or in a window - that's if they last that long!

  • Hands-on time: 30 mins
  • Time to make: 45 mins, plus chilling time for dough
  • Serving: 25 people (makes 25 cookies)
Ratings: 5.0
Ingredients

Ingredients

  • 100g reduced-fat spread
  • 100g brown sugar
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla essence
  • 1 egg
  • 250g wholemeal flour
  • 2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 8 different-coloured hard-boiled lollies
  • string
  • Always check food labels for allergens or trace warnings before buying your ingredients.
    Ingredients

    Instructions

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    1 Preheat oven to 180°C and line two oven trays with baking paper.

    2 Beat spread and sugar in a large bowl until creamy and light. Mix in vanilla essence and egg.

    3 Slowly add flour and baking powder. Mix until mixture forms a dough. Remove from bowl, wrap in plastic wrap and place in fridge to chill for 30 minutes.

    4 Place lollies into re-sealable bags and crush with a rolling pin.

    5 Place chilled dough between 2 sheets of baking paper. Roll out with a rolling pin until 5mm thick. Use cutters to cut cookies. Roll up leftover dough and repeat until all dough is used.

    6 Place cookies onto baking trays and cut smaller stars from centres of cookies or use a small round cutter. Sprinkle crushed lollies into cut-out areas and use a skewer to make a hole at the top of the cookie.

    7 Bake for 10-15 minutes until lollies have melted and cookies are golden brown.

    8 Once cookies have cooled, thread string through holes and hang on Christmas tree branches.

    HFG tip

    • Make dough ahead of time and store in fridge for up to a week.
    • Keep colours separate when crushing lollies.
    • Store cookies in an airtight container for up to 4 days.

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