Sugar Cookies
Had a craving for cookies and so they were made!
Just a really simple sugar cookie and then some had holes cut and boiled sweets added to make a stained glass effect, the rest decorated with icing or chocolate.
Cream together 227g butter and 300g granulated sugar.
Beat in 2 eggs and then fold in 490g plain flour, 1/4 tsp salt, 1 tsp baking powder.
Knead until a smooth dough, wrap and rest for about an hour, roll out and cut to shape.
Cook at 180C for 10-15 minutes, take them out >just< before they turn brown for a soft cookie, for a hard cruncy cookie wait until they’re turning brown around the edges.. Don’t let them get completely brown unless you want to break your teeth!
NB This recipe made 57 cookies! You may want to half it
The stained glass effect is really quite startling. One doesn’t expect to see a clear colored window in the center of a cookie. Now, fill that with jam like some folks do with shortbread, and you’d have a riot on your hands.
Excellent, tasty cookies. Again, I’ll take precisely one me-e-e-e-ellion of them, to be ready for the third week of September. I’ll swing by and pick them up. *grins*