phood adventures

Stained Glass Sugar Cookies

I made these cookies on our wonderful snow day! They looked fantastic but the taste…...well, honestly the cookies were salty.

The recipe is from Martha Stewart’s holiday cookie recipe book, and called for “coarse salt.” I interpreted this as “sea salt” because, well, sea salt is coarse, and it was either that or regular table salt. I think she more meant like..kosher salt or something but whatever it was, I didn’t have it handy in my house and used what I thought would be a proper substitute. Not so the case, and they were salty cookies.

But they were fun (if somewhat a pain) to make. I will also say that my chopped up Jolly Ranchers looked NOTHING like what she had in beautiful little bowls in the magazine. I went from big honking chunks achieved by whacking them in a ziploc baggie wrapped inside a kitchen towel with a rolling pin, or putting them in my mini “Queeeze” and decimating them into a fine powder. Actually, either method melted fine, but I think the powder melted too quickly during the baking, and the window pane was slightly bubblier than I’d hoped for.

It should also be noted that I think that something kind of funky happens to the candy during the baking process – they don’t taste quite as good after baking. I don’t know why and it could just be me, but….they tasted off.

But they sure are pretty.