JEWEL COOKIES - SIMPLE INGREDIENTS, SIMPLY DELICIOUS
You'll never believe a recipe of such simple ingredients makes cookies as delicate and gorgeous as these. Bake them year-round for graduation parties, backyard wedding receptions, and the holidays.
Can't do gluten? CraftFoxes has your sweet tooth covered.
Ingredients: 1.6 cups flour (7 oz or 200 g) 1/2 cup sugar (3½ oz or 100 g) scant 1/2 cup salted butter (3½ oz or 100 g) 2 egg yolks
For Decoration Candy Icing sugar Jam Colored sugar Icing (icing sugar and egg white)
Step 1
Place flour, sugar and butter into a food processor and process until fine. Add egg yolk and process until combined. Cover mixture and let sit overnight.
Step 2
Roll mixture out and cut with cookie cutters into your favorite shapes.
Step 3
To put candy in the cookies, use a small cutter to cut holes in the cookies. For jam tarts, use the leftover pieces removed from candy cookies as the lids of the tarts.
Step 4
Cook for 20–30 minutes at 360°F (180°C). For candy cookies, place candy into the holes after 15 minutes.
Step 5
When the cookies have cooled, dust with icing sugar or use the icing as a glue to attach decorations such as colored sugar or crushed candy.
Step 6
This recipe is excerpted with permission from Stylish Dress Book: Wear with Freedom
by Yoshiko Tsukiori (Tuttle Publishing).
