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From: waring@ima.infomail.com (Sam Waring)
Date: 27 Jan 95 18:18:39 -0600
Subject: Cathedral Window Cookies
Message-Id: <608_9501280137@ima.infomail.com>
Organization: Austin InfoMail Association - Austin, TX
-Begin Recipe Export- QBook version 1.00.14
Title: Stained-Glass Cookies
Keywords: cookies, holiday, Christmas
2 3/4 c flour
1/2 ts baking powder
1/2 ts salt
2/3 c sugar
1 c butter, unsalted
2 ts beaten egg (about half a
-large egg, lightly beaten)
1 1/2 ts vanilla extract
1/8 ts lemon extract
1 c sour balls (or I guess you
-could use Life Savers,
-6 1/2 oz)
Equipment: cookie sheets lines with aluminum foil, then sprayed with
nonstick vegetable cooking spray or greased; rolling pin; 3-inch round
cookie cutters and small canap# cutters.
Food Processor Method:
In a small bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder and salt. In a
food processor with the metal blade, process the sugar until it is very
fine. Cut the butter into a few pieces and add it with the motor
running. Process until smooth and creamy. Add the egg and extracts and
process until incorporated, scraping the sides of the bowl. Add the
flour mixture and pulse in, just until the dough begins to clump
together.
Electric Mixer Method:
Soften the butter. In a mixing bowl, cream together the sugar and
butter until fluffy. Add the egg and extracts and beat until blended.
In a small bowl, whisk together the remaining dry ingredients. On low
speed, gradually add them to the butter mixture and mix just until the
dough can be gathered into a ball.
For Both Methods:
Scrape the dough onto a sheet of plastic wrqap and use the wrap, not
your fingers, to press the dough together to form a thick flat disk.
Wrap it well and refrigerate for at least 30 minutes, preferably no
longer than 3 hours.
Place 2 oven racks in the upper and lower thirds of the oven. Preheat
oven to 350 degrees.
Separate the sour balls into individual colors and pulvverize them
separately in a blender or food processor. Place each color in a small
container and set aside.
Using about a quarter of the dough at a time, roll out the dough to 1/8
inch thickness between 2 sheets of plastic wrap or on a lightly floured
counter. Cut out cookies with a 3-inch cookie cutter, spraying or
greasing the cutter as needed to prevent sticking. With a small, angled
metal spatula or pancake turner, transfer the cookes to the prepared
cookie sheets. If you are planning to hang the cookies, make small
holes with a blunt end of a wooden skewer. Cut out shapes for the staine
glass in each cookie with small cutters or with a small sharp knife.
Use the tip of a small sharp knife to fill the holes with candy pieces,
filling just to the top of the dough.
Bake for 10 to 12 minutes or until the cookies are lightly browned and
the candy has melted completely. For even baking, rotate the cookie
sheets from top to bottom and front to back halfway through the baking
period. [Note: when you do this, make sure you don't let all the hot
air out of your oven, or you'll reduce the temperature inside and your
cookies won't bake fully! --Leti] Watch carefully toward the end of
baking to see that the candy does not start to caramelize and turn
brown.
Allow cookies to cool completely on the sheets. Carefully peel off the
aluminum foil. Store in and airtight container, between sheets of wax
paper, at room temperature. Keeps several weeks.
Makes 4 dozen.
This is a cookie and a candy all in one. The cookie itself is a crisp
sugar-butter cookie, and the candy panes add a sweet fruity flavor and
crunch.
It was these cookies, hanging on a Christmas tree, with light shining
through their transparent candy panes, that inspired me to create a
gingerbread cathedral with a stained-glass rose window (recipe in the
book, also). For greater ease of preparation, the cookies can be made
with one larger cutout in the center, but with many cutouts (admittedly
painstaking) they are so breathtaking to behold that they are worth the
effort.
Smart Cookie hints:
* Saran Wrap is the ideal plastic wrap for rolling the dough because it
lies very flat. Wax paper is the second best choice.
* For precise cutouts, chill the dough after the impressions are made
and remove the cutout with the tip of a sharp knife after the dough
has firmed enough for each cutout to come out in a clean piece.
* If you are using a blender to pulverize the sour balls, drop the balls
with the motor running in order to keep them from getting stuck under
the blades.
* Allow the cookie sheet(s) to cool completely before using for the next
batch.
* Distribute the cookies evenly around the cookie sheet. Avoid crowding
the cookies into one section of the cookie sheet, leaving a large area
bare.
This is from Rose's Christmas Cookies by Rose Levy Berenbaum
FROM: Leti Labell
-End Recipe Export-