Gay Beats Sydney South

Cookie Centerpiece Christmas lantern


My Toddler loves cookies with the stars ....
and her cookies with the stars are just these, cookies lantern.
I've prepared to celebrate the festival of Rificolona. ( http://www.eventiesagre.it/Eventi_Storici/2219_Festa+della+Rificolona.html )

For biscuits lantern glass effect I got the idea from here: http://lacollinadellefate.blogspot.c...-di-vetro.html

We proceed with the preparation of pastry, carry the recipe (on the blog http://lacollinadellefate.blogspot.com ):

Ingredients: 300 g.
150 grams of flour
150 g. of butter

sugar 1 large egg (or 1 small egg plus one yolk)
grated rind of 1 lemon

Proceed as for a normal crust, including the rest in refrigerator at least 30 '. While the rest
pastry, crumble the hard candies (putting the candy into a sheet of greaseproof paper, breaking with a hammer or a rolling pin).
This type of crust does not crumble and is therefore suitable for this type of preparation.
After resting in the fridge, roll out the pastry on a work surface, forming a square biscuit cutters.
Take a small cutters (a form star, heart, to taste), cut out the design.
fills the void with crushed hard candy colored.
Bake in preheated oven at a temperature of 170-180 °, bake cookies without taking too much color.
oven and cool. Do not move until they are cold or you risk breaking the biscuit and the little window.
The candy melts and cools when does the glass effect.

E 'was an undertaking to find colorful hard candy .. I could not find yellow, orange, green and red. They are good even without the candy colored sugar.
I had seen somewhere on a book by the idea of \u200b\u200bthe lantern cookies cookies (without the glass). I combined the two ideas.
The assembly of the lantern is the most difficult thing ... the cookies were glued together with icing. For each serving five
lantern cookies.
Another cute idea for Christmas .... among other things are also very good!