Christmas gingerbread with hard candy “stained glass”

Name: Christmas gingerbread with hard candy “stained glass”
Prep time: 40 min
Cook time: 11 min
Total time: 1 h 21 min
Yield: 20
Ingredients: 150 g Hard candies; 350 g Wheat flour; 100 g Butter; 100 g Sugar (brown is best); 3 tbsp Honey; 1 Egg; 2 tsp Cinnamon and ground ginger; ½ tsp Baking soda

Gingerbread stars and trees with coloured windows: the candy melts in the oven and sets like glass. A lovely gift and tree decoration.

Time51 minChilling30 minServings20DifficultyMedium

Ingredients

Hard candies150 g
Wheat flour350 g
Butter100 g
Sugar (brown is best)100 g
Honey3 tbsp
Egg1
Cinnamon and ground ginger2 tsp
Baking soda½ tsp

Method

Melt the butter with the sugar and honey; let cool until warm.
Add the egg, spices, baking soda and flour and knead a soft dough. Chill for 30 minutes.
Roll out 4–5 mm thick, cut out the cookies and a smaller window in the middle of each.
Sort the candies by colour and crush them in a bag with a rolling pin.
Move the cookies to baking paper and fill the windows with candy crumbs.
Bake for 9–11 minutes at 180 °C — the candy melts and turns clear.
Let the cookies cool on the paper until the candy sets.

TipTo hang the cookies on the tree, make a hole for a ribbon with a cocktail straw before baking.

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