Shane Smith's stain glass window cookies: Today

Ingredients

Makes 20

Prep: 30 mins

Baking: 10 mins

• 125g butter
• 125g caster sugar
• 1 medium egg
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 250g plain flour
• ¼ tsp ground cinnamon
• 10 mixed boiled /glucose sweets (foxes glacier mints)
• 100g white chocolate (melted)

Method

1. In a mixing bowl cream the butter, sugar and vanilla together until creamy and pale.
2. Add the egg and mix.
3. Finally, add the flour & cinnamon and combine.
4. Wrap this dough in cling-film and chill for one hour.
5. Once rested, on a floured surface roll out and cut into desired Christmas shapes.
6. Taking a small similar cutter, cut out the centre of each cookie and place them on a lined baking sheet.
7. Place the boiled sweets in a bag and crush using a rolling pin. Sprinkle these into the centre of each cookie and place in a preheated oven set at 165C and bake for 10 minutes until golden brown.
8. Once baked, remove from the oven allow to cool on the tray.
9. Decorate with piped melted white chocolate.