I’ve always wanted to try making stained glass biscuits and the festive season seemed like the perfect opportunity to indulge my inner child. So drum roll please for these Stained Glass Christmas Biscuits! Granny used to have an array of recipes books which I remember flicking through as a child. In fact, I’m pretty sure she probably still has most of them.
There is a few recipes in these books that always stick out in my mind; the Toadstool birthday cake, traffic light biscuits, castles made with ice cream cones and of course, stained glass biscuits. I’d always wanted to try and make stained glass biscuits as a child but as I have no memory of actually making them I can only assume we never did. But now I’m the grown up and I get to choose what we make! It’s safe to say J was delighted with the idea of these and I’m pretty delighted myself with the results of these Stained Glass Christmas Biscuits myself.
The recipe is simple and the process of making them is deceivingly so too; what appears to look like a little work of art is really quite straight forward. The hardest part was probably actually finding the sweeties for them. I originally went on the search for Fox’s Glacier Fruits
Stained Glass Christmas Biscuits
PRINT RECIPEINGREDIENTS
- 300 g Plain Flour
- 1 tsp Ground Ginger
- 1 tsp Ground Cinnamon
- 175 g Butter
- 100 g Golden Syurp
- 250 g Clear Boiled Fruit Sweeties
INSTRUCTIONS
- Sift the flour, ginger, cinnamon & ginger into a large bowl.
- Rub the butter into the flour using your hands until the mixture resembles breadcrumbs.
- Add the golden syrup and mix with a spoon until lumps start to form, then use your hands to form a dough. Wrap the dough in cling film & chill for around 30 minutes, during which time pre-heat your oven to 180°c, line your baking trays with greaseproof paper and sort your sweeties into individual colours in separate sandwich bags; then crush the sweeties by bashing them with a rolling pin.
- Lightly flour your work surface and roll out the dough to around 1cm thickness. Use the cutter of your choice to cut your biscuit and then us a smaller cutter to remove a centre shape also.
- Transfer your biscuits to the lined baking tray and use a skewer to make a hole at the top of your biscuit if you plan to hang them from your Christmas Tree.
- Use your broken sweeties to fill the cut-out centres of your biscuits and then bake for around 15 minutes or until the sweeties have melted & the biscuits are golden.
- Once the biscuits have started to cool a llittle & the sweeties have solidified again, transfer to a wire rack to cool.
IMPORTANT NOTE:
All my recipes are developed using a digital scale and the metric system (grams and millilitres). Cup measurements are available as a conversion but these, unfortunately, won't always be as accurate. For best results, I always recommend baking with a digital scale.
10 responses
Omg those Christmas biscuits are so cute. I love baking stuff for Christmas, I might have to try this recipe. Your blog is very nice x
Thank you for your lovely comment, Cecilia. There’s just something extra special about baking around Christmas, isn’t there?
These are very cute. I love the Christmas tree one. They seem pretty easy to make too.
The Christmas tree is my favourite too! But the possibilities are endless with these biscuits and some didn’t turn out quite as pretty.
These are simply stunning! I hardly even have the patience to make regular cut-out cookies, so I’m super impressed by these. Gorgeous photos, too!
Thanks :) I’m quite surprised with my patience in making these, especially since I had a ‘helpful’ hand from a 4 year old! But honestly, I found the whole process of making these quite therapeutic (particularly the bashing the sweeties bit!).
These look adorable and tasty! All I need now are Christmassy cookie cutters. :)
We got ours from TK Maxx – highly recommend them as they have LOADS to choose from!
Aah we ran out of time to make any Stained Glass Window Cookies this year – yours are beautiful!
How many does this recipe make please?