wyo_rose

The most beautiful cookies I have ever seen.

Basic Sugar Cookie Dough (even store bought)
Lifesavers or lollipops

Crush the different colors of lifesavers or Lollipops separately. You don't want to make powder, but the pieces shouldn't be over 1/4".

Roll out your chilled dough between 1/8 and 1/4 inch, and use cookie cutters to cut various shapes. Bells, circles, stars, trees...are all good. Now you want to cut out some windows in your shapes. The windows shouldn't be TOO big. Use a knife or SMALL cookie cutters to cut these out.

Cover your baking sheet with foil. Spray with non-stick spray. Lay the cookie shapes on the pan and using a small spoon, fill the windows with different colors of the crushed candy.

Bake as directed, whatever kind of dough you're using. Remove foil and cookies carefully and let cool before attempting to peel the cookies off the foil.

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2lineCarrandMorgan

oh i want to try to make these .

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I am Deganewidah, and with the Five Nations confederate lords I plant the tree of the Great Peace. . . . Roots have spread out from the Tree . . . and the name of these Roots is the Great White Roots of Peace. If any man or any nation outside the Five Nations shall show a desire to obey the laws of the Great Peace . . . they may trace the Roots to their source . . . and they shall be welcomed to take shelter beneath the Tree. . . .
for my Dad

then again somtimes i see a woman in the trees she only looks at me and i can only look at her i m what she is now....i thank her as i see her... then somedays i see her as she was and that i will never be,and still we look at each other,
hello my Mother my sister today i saw you more than befor ,now i know i have a need more to walk with you here than ever i knew befor. Thank you

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“Something is at work in all of us,”
Peter Kinew


Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass..It's about learning to dance in
the rain.
for the wolf

wyo_rose

Basic Sugar Cookie Dough

INGREDIENTS
1 1/2 cups butter, softened
2 cups white sugar
4 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
5 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt

DIRECTIONS
In a large bowl, cream together butter and sugar until smooth. Beat in eggs and vanilla. Stir in the flour, baking powder, and salt. Cover, and chill dough for at least one hour (or overnight).
Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Roll out dough on floured surface 1/4 to 1/2 inch thick. Cut into shapes with any cookie cutter. Place cookies 1 inch apart on ungreased cookie sheets.
Bake 6 to 8 minutes in preheated oven. Cool completely.

And some pics:

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Pvt Butter

I made these last year and used all different types of candy. My stained glass didn't look so stained b/c I included solid white hard candies too. Still, they were pretty and fun to make! If you try to eat them, the candy gets really crumbly. yummmmmm

Pvt Butter

Oh yeah, I baked these a couple of different ways. First I tried foil, then parchment paper, then just on the pan. The best results came from the parchment paper. The cookies did not overcook. when I cooked them on foil, the candy turned out fine, but the cookie was too dark. Baked on the pan, the candy burned.

wyo_rose

Good note! Thanks! *adding parchment paper to my list*

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Pvt Butter

parchment paper is a baking must. Once you bake brownies or cookies with it, you'll never want to bake without it again!

Pvt Butter

if you cut your parchment to fit your pan and it rolls up on you, just use some softened butter along the edges to hold the paper flat

eap7

Great tip on the parchment paper! I'm going to try this recipe sometime soon!