I first saw these gorgeous Stained Glass Cookies featured on one of my favorite food blogs, My Wooden Spoon.  They were a guest post by Food For My Family and they immediately caught my eye with their beautiful  colors and the delicious sounding recipe.

She flavored hers with Lemon and named them:

Lemony Sweet Stained Glass Cookies

INGREDIENTS

• 1 stick unsalted butter
• ½ cup granulated sugar
• 1/3 cup brown sugar
• 1 teaspoon lemon extract
• 2 teaspoons lemon rind
• 1 egg
• 2 tablespoons sour cream
• 2 cups flour
• ½ teaspoon sea salt or kosher salt
• ¾ teaspoon baking powder
• 30-40 hard candies such as Jolly Ranchers or Life Savers, sorted by color

DIRECTIONS

Preheat oven to 375º F.  In a large mixing bowl, cream together butter and sugars.  Beat in lemon extract, egg and lemon rind.  Stir in the sour cream.  Sift together flour, salt and baking soda and then mix into the batter.  Separate in half.  Place the balls on a sheet of parchment paper cut to fit your baking sheets.

Lightly flour the top of the dough and use a rolling pin to roll it out to ¼” thickness on the parchment.  Using 4″ and 2″ cookie cutters cut out large shapes with the 4″ cutters and then use the 2″ cutter to cut out the centers.  Slide the parchment sheet with the cookies onto a cookie sheet.

Crush the sorted candies in zip-top or other baggies wrapped in cloth using the rolling pin or some other heavy object, like the bottom of a can.  Using a small spoon, like a ½ teaspoon measuring spoon or something similar, place the candies into the cutout shapes.  Use a toothpick to guide them around to the edges, being careful not to get any candy pieces on top of the cookie dough itself, just up to the edge.

Bake at 375º F for 10 minutes.  Remove from the oven and allow to cool on parchment.  When cool, carefully peel parchment away.  Package in airtight containers once completely cool, hang on the tree, give them away to friends, family and neighbors, and don’t forget to eat a few yourself.

‘Tis the season, after all.

For full step by step recipe with gorgeous tutorial photographs, please visit My Wooden Spoon

This cookie recipe is a part of Blissfully Domestic’s 12 Days of Cookies.

You can see all the recipes and link your own, here