Stained Glass Cookies ~ Baking Chez Moi

Per Tricia ~

This is a makeup week, or "rewind", as the Tuesdays with Dorie

community calls it.  I hadn't yet completed the Stained Glass Cookie

 recipe from Baking Chez Moi so I decided to go for it.  I expected 

the process to be time consuming so I tackled it AFTER 

Christmas, but while both sons were still home on break. 
 The process WAS time consuming. 
Even with Dorie's detailed  instructions, when you start thinking
 that tweezers would be a useful tool as you are cooking it's a good 

indicator that the process is involved. I'm not that patient :)

These were lovely when held up to the light. But even better to eat :)

The verdict ? 

Off the charts delicious and fun to look at. 
That said, I have no intention to ever make these cookies -per the recipe 
and for the holidays -again. I also have every intention to make the 
COOKIE part of the recipe many times.  I'll just omit the labor intensive/
arts & crafts cutting and filling with candy I have crushed by hand.

I cut the edge of a plastic bag and piped in the crushed candy, rethinking my choice of snowflake cutter the whole time.....
 

The cookie recipe is hands down the best butter cookie I have ever made. 

While many might not think its a compliment, the fact that the cookies

 tasted like the old school blue tins of little shaped butter cookies I grew 

up with is a huge compliment in my book. To have those little 

delights in a warm and fresh version was a wonderful surprise. 

I added an egg wash to the dough before cutting. The inserts got the extra candy on top- delicious !

And while it was labor intensive to this admittedly lazy baker, I really did 

enjoy trying - at least once - Dorie's technique for decorating the cookies 

this way. Trying is what it is all about.  And I am totally planning to steal

 the idea of one of my blogging peers who's going to revisit this with 

heart shaped cutters and red candy for Valentine's Day. Love it.

This marks another Tuesday recipe testing as we cook along with the "Tuesdays with Dorie" online group.  Please note that we do not post the recipes, per the group rules, but we do encourage others to RUN out and buy their own copy of Dorie Greenspan's "Baking Chez Moi".  Better yet, buy the book and JOIN THE GROUP ! www.TuesdaysWithDorie.wordpress.com