Stained-Glass Snowmen Cookies

Name: Stained-Glass Snowmen Cookies
Ingredients: 1 batch Vanilla Dough or Chocolate Dough; Crushed hard candies (plus optional star cutout); Technique: Stained Glass; Cookie cutters: Snowman, small fluted or plain round cutter, and #12 Ateco pastry tip (for button holes) or star aspic cutter

Try one of our cutout-cookie variations: Sugared Wreaths, Stained-Glass Wreaths, Fluted Wreaths, Cookie Houses, and Christmas Trees.

Source: Martha Stewart Living, December 2010

Ingredients

1 batch Vanilla Dough or Chocolate Dough
Crushed hard candies (plus optional star cutout)
Technique: Stained Glass
Cookie cutters: Snowman, small fluted or plain round cutter, and #12 Ateco pastry tip (for button holes) or star aspic cutter

Directions

1. Shape dough into 2 disks, and wrap each in plastic wrap. Refrigerate until firm, about 1 hour. Roll out 1 disk on a lightly floured piece of parchment to a 1/8- to 1/4-inch thickness. Repeat with remaining disk. Refrigerate until firm, about 30 minutes. Cut out desired shapes. Follow our Stained Glass directions. Affix candy or cookie embellishments to cooled cookies using a dot of our Vanilla or Citrus Glaze.