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Cookie Tip!

Tonight, I made Stained Glass cookies. You use a basic cutout cookie recipe -- I used Gingerbread -- and you cut out a section inside each cookies. Then, you fill that cutout section with pulverized Life Savers. When you bake the cookie, the LifeSaver pieces melt and spread to fill the inner part. Here's what I discovered:

1. If you're going to do this for the first time, or if you're horrible with cutout cookies, do circles. I used stars because that was the only shape that I had 2 same-shape, different-size cutters. It made it more difficult because the points are very easy to break.
   
2. Use parchment paper on your cookiesheets. I did this after struggling with 2 batches.
   
3. If you don't use parchment paper, there's a certain window of timewhere getting the cookies off the sheet is fairly easy. If you try to get them off too soon, the hard candy inside is still liquidy and it will run. But if you let them cool on the cookie sheet all of the way, the hard candy will adhere to the cookie sheet, and removing an intact cookie becomes difficult, if not impossible. Use a metal spatula and quickly slide it under each cookie to remove it.
   
4. Melted Life Savers on your hand REALLY burns.

Also, if a cookie tastes bland and crappy, drizzling semi-sweet chocolate on it will help it 100%. Of course, chocolate helps everything!

posted by LadyGypsy @ 11:37 PM