Hello,
I would love to make these cookies posted in the gallery by Jeannem. Any ideas of what she used for the candy center?
Thanks so much,
Vonda
http://www.cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=gallery&file=displayimage&pid=1289546
http://www.womansday.com/Recipes/Crystal-Snowflakes
I can't get the photo to come up but the caption says "my version of woman's day snowflake" so I googled it and this is what I found.......maybe this will help!
I still can't figure out how she iced her cookie and THEN added the candy??? Unless she melted the candy inside of a cookie cutter and then let it harden and then attached it........maybe that's why she put all the dragees around to mask where the cookie and candy meet?? I dunno!! They are really cool cookies, I'm making some snowflake cookies for a donation to a bake sale......might try some with candy centers, they're really cool looking!
She bakes the cookies for a while, then take them out of the oven and fill the centers with crushed candy. Return the cookies to the oven until the candy melts. Here is another link with pictures. I want to try them!!
http://www.elise.com/recipes/archives/006213stained_glass_cookies.php
yes I get that you do it halfway through the baking but the person on CC that made them stated that she iced them first and then put the candy centers in them, that's what threw me off. Someone asked her how she got the icing so perfect and didn't get any on the candy center and she said "I iced them first, then added the centers." How is that possible??????
Yikes!! I can't believe there is a thread about my cookies!!
The cutter is the largest from the snowflake set that comes in the tin. I think it's the same in both the 5 piece set and the 9 piece set.
After baking the cookies (cut out the center-leave it empty) I frosted with poured icing. You put the cookies on a grate pour icing on top like making petit fours.
Next I brushed them with pearl dust.
Then I made lollipop candy--got the microwave recipe from lorannoils.com--1 cup sugar, 1/2 cup corn syrup. Follow their directions--make sure to cover with cling film. My microwave is 1000 watts so I heated for 2 1/2 minutes, stirred, heated for another 2 minutes. Make sure to test a drop in a glass of water--it's gotta crackle when dropped in the water. I used electric blue food color, and just "drizzled" the hot candy in the center--less is better so you don't overflow the cut out design. put the cookies on cling film so they'll release (waxed paper makes them stick. And yes the dots of icing are hiding the imperfections. I made cake jeweles with the leftover candy.
HTH-
Drat--I was afraid someone was going to ask for that recipe--I just make a witch's brew of milk, butter, powdered sugar, corn syrup and flovoring. I think you could use the "easy petits fours icing" from this site. Just keep it warm--not too hot, and add white food coloring!! Don't even think of doing it without the food white food color--makes life so much easier. I put mine on a rack over a sheet pan and pour the icing over with a gravy ladle. Just scrape the icing back in the container and reheat. A lot of people just dunk the cookie.
Not the Wilton--have those and they break easily. I've attached a picture of a set that will work--there is also a set of 5 that has the same large cutter. This set is nice, and you can use one of the smaller cutters for the center. Hope it works--I'm a computer novice..
Did you purchase the cutters online or somewhere like Michaels?
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