Stained Glass Gingerbread Cookies

Stained Glass Gingerbread Cookies are so fun to make, beautiful to look at, and tasty to eat

I say this every year, but I can’t believe how fast Christmas creeps up! As soon as Halloween ends, all the stores pull out the Christmas displays and some of my neighbours already have their Christmas lights up on their houses. And I start baking cookies! I’m not much of a baker the rest of the year, but over the holidays I love to bake cookies and other goodies. One of our family’s favourite Christmas cookies is gingerbread. As soon as my kids see me making up the dough, they come over to help out. Picking out the cookie cutters and cutting out shapes in the dough seems to be everyone’s favourite part. I have a huge bag of various Christmas cookie cutters that I  bring out for the kids to rummage through, and the kids all pick out their favourites.

Stained Glass Gingerbread Cookies are so fun to make, beautiful to look at, and tasty to eat

I decided to try a spin on our usually gingerbread cookies by adding “stained glass” in the centres. We had a fair amount of candy left over from Halloween, so I had lots of lollipops and Life-savers to crush up to create the look of stained glass. It’s really easy to do, and best of all, the “glass” tastes delicious!

Stained Glass Gingerbread Cookies are so fun to make, beautiful to look at, and tasty to eat

When you hold the cookies up to the light, you can see the lovely colours shining through. They’d actually make great decorations for your windows or tree – just add a hole to the top by sticking a straw in the dough before you bake them. That way, you can put ribbon or string through them for hanging.

Stained Glass Gingerbread Cookies are so fun to make, beautiful to look at, and tasty to eat

It’s good to use a silicone liner when baking these, so you can peel the cookie with melted candy off the sheet more easily. Trudeau gave me one of their silicone liners to try, and they worked perfectly for these cookies. The star and circle shaped cookie cutters also came from Trudeau. If you want to win some of their bakeware, please check out my Instagram contest.

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