Snowflake Cookies
Calories: 146kcal
Adjust Servings Here: 20 Cookies
Description
These Snowflake Cookies are a fun Christmas project for kids and grown-ups. Made with my no-spread gingerbread sugar cookie dough these use candy to create a stained-glass window effect. Spiced with ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg, and molasses this is a surprisingly simple and easy recipe to make.
Ingredients
- 2 ½ cup (310 g) All-purpose flour
- 4 oz (113 g) Butter (1 stick, ½ cup) unsalted, room temperature
- ¼ cup (50 g) Sugar
- ½ cup (110 g) Light brown sugar
- ¼ cup (60 ml) Molasses
- 1 Egg large
- ¼ tsp Salt
- 1 ½ tsp Ground ginger
- 1 tsp Cinnamon powder
- ½ tsp Ground cloves
- 1 tsp Vanilla extract
Candy
- 20 Candies various colors
Instructions
Prepare the gingerbread sugar cookie dough
- Combine flour, spices(cloves, cinnamon, ginger,) and salt.
- Cream butter and both sugars until light and fluffy.
- Add in the molasses and egg.
- Next, add in the flour mixture - combine well.
- Bring it all together - the dough will be soft.
- Divide into two, wrap in plastic/cling wrap and chill for a couple of an hour or overnight.
Roll and cut snowflake cookies
- Roll the dough on a lightly floured surface.
- Use a snowflake cookie cutter - cut the shape and place it on a parchment-lined baking tray
- Use a smaller snowflake cutter about two sizes smaller for the center. (You can use the center as a small size snowflake cookie as well).
- Crush the candies with a rolling pin. You want small pieces almost crushed to a powder.
- Fill the cavity with crushed candy keeping it well within the cavity.
Chill and Bake
- I usually prefer to chill my cookies in the fridge for 15 minutes while the oven is preheating.
- Preheat the oven at 170 C/ 340 F
- Bake in a preheated oven for about 10 to 12 minutes.
- When baked let the cookies cool in the baking tray. If you move the cookies while they are hot the melted cookies will spread. Plus you can get scald yourself with hot melted sugar.
- When cool use a flat spatula to remove them from the tray
- Cool on a cooling rack completely before you transfer to a cookie jar.
Recipe Notes
- Use a cookie dough that can take a bit of handling. Kids take longer to work with these so a rich butter cookie might not work well with the kids. This gingerbread flavored cookie dough does well because when chilled it does really well.
- If you notice the kid's cookies above are a bit thicker with a smaller center cut out making the cookie border thicker. Unlike mine which is thinner with a larger center. It's better this way for the kids to handle the cookie cut out and move them from the rolling mat to the cookie sheet
- Place the whole cookie on the baking tray first before you use the smaller cookie cutter. That way you don't distort the shape.
- Make sure you crush the candy well before you fill the centers so it will melt evenly.
- Chill the cookies before you bake them, I find they work better.
- I usually bake most cookies for 10 minutes but for these, I baked them for 11 to 12 minutes - so they baked a bit on the firm side.
- When the cookie is done. The centers will still be melted and bubbling. CAUTION!! Keep the kids away as the sugar center is really hot.
- Do not try to move the cookies from the baking tray until they are completely cooled. This can cause the center to break off.
- I waited for 10 minutes until I could move the spatula under each cookie. Then I moved it to the drying rack.
- Attempted to add a ribbon through the hole only when completely cooled.
Nutrition Information
Calories: 146kcalCarbohydrates: 23gProtein: 2gFat: 5gSaturated Fat: 3gCholesterol: 20mgSodium: 77mgPotassium: 89mgFiber: 1gSugar: 11gVitamin A: 153IUCalcium: 20mgIron: 1mg
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