Shaking Sprinkle Glass Cookies
Shaking Sprinkle Glass Cookies are sure to impress people of all ages! These crisp buttery cookies are cut into any festive shapes and filled with hard candies and sprinkles and giving a gorgeous and eye-catching colourful glass effect.
These Shaking Sprinkle Glass Cookies are out of this world delicious and so impressive to look at! These cookies are just mouth melting and so impressive to look at. These cookies look amazing and I just love seeing light peek through the centres, and yes, you can decorate your Christmas tree with them also!
On this Christmas, I decided to make Shaking Sprinkle Glass cookies as that was in my to-do list for a long time. I thought this is the perfect timing. And also, I have so many shaped cookie cutters available at the moment.
I used my own sugar cookie recipe, giving a gorgeous glass centre and then fill them with edible colourful sprinkles, and was delighted with how beautiful they turned out. My family was in awe!
These shaking Sprinkle Glass cookies are a cookie and a candy all in one. These Cookies come together in a flash and the perfect treat for the holidays or any other festive occasion!! You can use any combination of cookie cutters to make them. Just be try not to make the edge too thin as they will become brittle.
To be honest I was a little nervous when I put these Sprinkle Glass Cookies into the oven. Would they come out like that perfect eye-catching pictures you see in YouTube and magazines, or would it be a disaster?? Imagine my relief when I pulled the cookies out of the oven and found these gorgeous pieces. If I can make picture-perfect Sprinkle Glass Cookies, so can you!
This is a great holiday baking to do with my son and he had so much fun making these with me.
Even though it is a simple plain buttery cookie recipe you will have to take those little efforts or additional two steps to make it into a shaking sprinkle glass cookie.
How to Make Shaking Sprinkle Glass Cookies?
This recipe actually starts with a basic plain buttery cookie dough. The dough needs to chill before you start rolling and cutting, so plan accordingly. You can cut out the cookies using any shape of cookie cutter.
I used star, flower and heart shaped cookie cutters here because we are making for Christmas, but you can use any cookie cutters you like, as long as you have them in two different sizes so you can cut out centres.
You can turn those plain Cookies into sprinkle Glass Cookies simply by cutting out the centres of the cookies and filling them with your favourite colourful hard candy. The transformation takes place in the oven, when the candy melts making it look like coloured glass.
I used Fox Candies here which is easily available in the grocery shop or online sites, but you can use any other hard candy. Just make sure the candies are hard and transparent so they will give best result.
And finally, I filled these cookies with edible colourful sprinkles and voila, your cookies are now shaking sprinkle glass cookies. The perfect treat for the Christmas, holidays or any other festive occasion!
If you’ve never made this Sprinkle Glass Cookies before, this is the time you need to try. Because these cookies are very unique, Gorgeous and so very festive!
The Trick is the Order of Steps
1] Cut out different shapes cookies from Plain sugar cookie dough.
Make the cookie dough according to the recipe below.
Roll dough out to ¼ inch thickness.
Cut out cookies, re-rolling dough as needed.
Tip for helping cut-out cookies keep their shape:
Roll out the dough on a parchment paper or baking sheet, then place this paper or sheet in you baking tray. Cut the desired shapes of your cookies.
(Your cookies will look like perfectly shaped if you do this)
2] Cut centres for the candy window.
Use the same shape small cookie cutter to cut the centres of those cookies.
(see the video carefully)
3] Bake the cookies and fill the centres with candy
Pop one tray of cookies in the oven for 10 minutes.
Remove and cool it and put one candy in each cookie centre.
Put these cookies back in the oven for about 5 minutes.
Keep an eye on the cookies. You just want the candy to melt.
If left in the oven too long, the candy will bubble and then your candy windows will be full of bubbles.
If needed, rotate the baking tray midway through this cycle so that the candy evenly melts in all the cookies.
4] Assemble the cookies and fill with colourful edible sprinkles
Heat the sugar and little water on high flame and make an instant sugar syrup or chasni of 2 strings or you can melt the chocolate in microwave and fill it in a piping bag.
For the bottom cookies, add your favourite edible sprinkles onto the glass window. Take the top cookies and drizzle thick sugar syrup or melted chocolate around the rims. Immediately sandwich the 2 cookies, press it gently and keep aside.
Allow the cookies to dry for 10 minutes before moving.
These Shaking Sprinkle Glass Cookies are out of this world delicious and so impressive to look at!
Watch How to Make Shaking Sprinkle Glass Cookies Video Tutorial:
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Pro Tips For this Shaking Cookies:
- Measure your all ingredients correctly! Adding too much milk or flour to the recipe is the most common mistake. So, I suggest you to use a weigh scale for best result. If you don’t have one then use measuring cups or spoons.
- Be very careful while adding milk otherwise your dough will be sticky and the cookies will not perfectly be turned out.
- If your dough looks sticky and then keep it in a refrigerator and go ahead.
- Try not to get any local hard candy on the plain cookie as it will look messy. Always use good quality candies and they must be transparent and hard. I used Fox Candies; this gave the cookies a wonderful crystal-clear look.
- You only need to fill the centres of the cookies with one fox candy or if you will fill them with any other crushed candies than make sure You only need to fill the centres of the cookies about 2/3 of the way full with the candy, otherwise you run the risk of it overflowing onto the cookie.
- Use small size of edible sprinkles.
- Make sure you wait for the cookies to cool before lifting them off the baking sheet, they need to set and firm up.
- Over baking will make the cookies burn so watch out!
Frequently asked Questions
Which candies Can I use for these Sprinkle Glass Cookies?
Any hard candy will work. I used Fox Candies here and they have a really nice fruits flavour but you can choose one that you enjoy!
Can I use Egg in this recipe?
A big yes, you can definitely use them, just skip the milk and add egg.
How Long will these cookies keep for?
In an air tight container and also in dry environment these cookies will keep for up to a week.
How do you keep cookies from Sticking?
Humidity is the enemy of these cookies as it makes the “glass” sticky. So, you should store these cookies in a single layer or place parchment in between layers so that they don’t stick together.
If you’re double your festive celebration on this Christmas and New year, these shaking glass cookies can’t be beat!
Shaking Sprinkle Glass Cookies (Video Recipe)
Plain buttery cookies turn into gorgeous shaking sprinkle glass windows when you fill their centres with transparent hard candies and then assemble and fill with colourful sprinkles. Before starting, please understand the helpful video tutorial and pro tips above.
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In a large mixing bowl, add softened butter and beat it till it’s become fully and smooth and then add sugar powder and again beat it until smooth. Add milk and stir well to combine.
Add vanilla essence in it and again just mix everything well.
Now Sift in the flour and fold until fully incorporated.
If the mixture looks dry then add 1/2 spoon of milk and knead it well.
Remove the dough from the bowl. Place the dough on a large piece of cling wrap and wrap the cling film around the dough and chill for at least 2 hours, or up to 1 day before you plan to bake your cookies.
Preheat the oven to 170˚C.
Remove dough from refrigerator and again knead it for few seconds.
Roll out the dough on a parchment paper or baking sheet to ¼ inch thickness, then place this paper or sheet in your baking tray.
Using any shaped cookie cutter, cut out as many shapes as you can from the dough. Then cut out the centre of each cookie with using small cutters.
Bake these cookies at 170 C preheated oven for 10 minutes.
Take out the baking tray from the oven and cool it completely.
Now place hard candies in the centre of each cookies. Bake for 5 minutes or until the hard candy melts and spreads out.
Let the cookies cool completely.
Fill a piping bag with thick sugar syrup (chasni) or you can use melted chocolate also.
For the bottom cookies, add your favourite edible sprinkles onto the glass window. Take the top cookies and drizzle thick sugar syrup or melted chocolate around the rims. Immediately sandwich the 2 cookies, press it gently and keep aside.
Allow the cookies to dry for 10 minutes before moving.
Repeat the same process with the other cookies.
Enjoy!
Ingredients
Directions
In a large mixing bowl, add softened butter and beat it till it’s become fully and smooth and then add sugar powder and again beat it until smooth. Add milk and stir well to combine.
Add vanilla essence in it and again just mix everything well.
Now Sift in the flour and fold until fully incorporated.
If the mixture looks dry then add 1/2 spoon of milk and knead it well.
Remove the dough from the bowl. Place the dough on a large piece of cling wrap and wrap the cling film around the dough and chill for at least 2 hours, or up to 1 day before you plan to bake your cookies.
Preheat the oven to 170˚C.
Remove dough from refrigerator and again knead it for few seconds.
Roll out the dough on a parchment paper or baking sheet to ¼ inch thickness, then place this paper or sheet in your baking tray.
Using any shaped cookie cutter, cut out as many shapes as you can from the dough. Then cut out the centre of each cookie with using small cutters.
Bake these cookies at 170 C preheated oven for 10 minutes.
Take out the baking tray from the oven and cool it completely.
Now place hard candies in the centre of each cookies. Bake for 5 minutes or until the hard candy melts and spreads out.
Let the cookies cool completely.
Fill a piping bag with thick sugar syrup (chasni) or you can use melted chocolate also.
For the bottom cookies, add your favourite edible sprinkles onto the glass window. Take the top cookies and drizzle thick sugar syrup or melted chocolate around the rims. Immediately sandwich the 2 cookies, press it gently and keep aside.
Allow the cookies to dry for 10 minutes before moving.
Repeat the same process with the other cookies.
Enjoy!
2 Comments
Shilpaa
Posted on: December 22, 2020Very creative idea. Surely try this..thank you.
Preeti Lal
Posted on: December 22, 2020I’m glad to hear you like it. Can’t wait to see your creations and your valuable reviews here Shilpa.