Sophie and i are finally in the kitchen after a long time so excuse the raggle taggle look as she has been a bit poorly and this is my attempt to cheer her up and get her back on track again. We decided to make some Christmas cookies but a little different as i have always wanted to try melting boiled sweets in cookies to give the stain glass window effect. Sophie made a basic cookie recipe bringing the cookie dough together in a bowl then rolling it out in between two bits of cling film, then we rested the dough in the fridge.
While the dough was chilling and relaxing we had a smashing good time with a rolling pin, some different coloured boiled sweets and a ziplock making sugary bits from the sweets. Once the dough was chilled Sophie choose the star cutter as it is Christmasy and then we cut a smaller star inside before we sprinkled the centers with the boiled sugary bits we smashed up then popped them in the oven for 10 mins. After the cookies have come out and cooled the sugar centers set hard and add a lovely flavour to the cookies, we decorated the edges of the cookies with icing sugar covered in lots of edible glitter to make them sparkle
Sophie offered to help clean up after but i will think twice next time
these look so dainty and pretty Helen and perfcet for this time of year. i love seeing Sophie's whole head in the bowl lol my kinda gal!! And yaaay to having you baking again, feel free to link this up to our xmas linky for another entry in our give away x x
ReplyDeleteAll linked lol yes Sophie really love to get the bowl and spoon at the end of baking :)
DeleteHa ha thats a fab picture of Sophie with her head in the bowl!!! :-) we're going to be making Christmas biscuits next week xx
ReplyDeletehehe i know the bowl is the treat cant wait to see your cookies
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