Stained Glass Window Cookies

From the kitchen of Laura

Ingredients

1 cup butter or margarine
1 cup sugar
2 tablespoons milk
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 1/2 cups flour
crushed hard candies, sorted by colors

Directions

1. When ready to bake, preheat the oven to 375 degrees and line cookie pans with foil.

2. In a large bowl, beat the butter with a hand mixer until softened. Add the sugar and beat until fluffy.

3. Add the milk and vanilla and blend. Gradually beat in the flour.

4. Form the dough into a disk, wrap, and chill for an hour.

5. Roll the chilled dough out on a lightly floured surface.

6. Use a lightly floured cookie cutter to cut shapes and a small round cookie cutter to make the holes.

7. Place the shapes on a foil lined cookie sheet.

8. Add about half a teaspoon of the crushed candy to the hole.

9. Bake the cookies for about 8 minutes.

10. Let the cookies cool on the foil for about 10 minutes.

11. Peel off the foil.

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