Loops and use a tooth pick to reform the holeĪfter you pull the cookies out of the oven. Ornament hoops, leave a little extra dough for Worked very well for "stained glass." If you want Impress your friends with these beautiful, easy to I also found Jolly Ranchers to be much better than Life Savers for both color and transparency. I did handle the dough differently than the original recipe called for - I just broke off pieces from the dough and rolled out each shape individually with my hands. I think the estimate of how many cookies can be made from one batch is off - I consistently got about 60-70 cookies from each batch and had to use double the amount of Jolly Ranchers called for. A very festive result and they melt perfectly. So bad I took the time to register just so I could warn others.Īnother option, add crumbled candy cane in place of broken colored candies. My suggestion, follow some of the other posters and use cookie cutters and different candy. Even the kids didn't want to eat them after the first bite. I used life savers like the recipe called for and crushed them with a mallet. I finally gave up and let my nephews and nieces have fun with it. No matter how thin I rolled out the "lead" when baking it swelled up and looked horrid. When I used a scant amount of flour it was overly dry. The dough was tacky after 12 hours in the fridge. That being said - it was a great idea and I will probably make the ornaments using a butter cookie dough. Definitely needs more butter and probably some white sugar as well. We rolled them in sugar and flattened them to make a gingersnap type cookie, but it was still awful. This was a great idea, but we followed the recipe to the letter and our dough was so crumbly that we couldn't form ropes small enough to make shapes. I will look for a different ornament cookie recipe for next year. They also thought the cookies tasted good even though they were bulky and strange. I gave this two forks because, despite the problems, the kids had a great time and the end result was OK. I ended up making all the ropes and let the kids shape them and fill with the candies. I liked the concept and thought it would be a fun thing to do with the kids, but as others have commented the dough was extremely crumbly and difficult to work. I wish I had read the other reviews before I started this. The mint and ginger bread made for a yummy combination of flavored, will make every year! A few more minutes and you can trim any excess candy, but don't wait to long or it will be too hard to trim. After one minute cooling you can slide a ribbon through the candy without touching to have something to hang it by. Takes about 8 minutes and if any bubbling starts to occur, pull them out. I smashed peppermint candy canes between a dish towel and put very fine layers of candy making sure not layered higher than the dough. I used cookie cutters to do two hearts, but also other cookie cutters and used a knife to hollow out insides.
I used flour to make it less tacky when rolling it out. These were so much fun! I only refrigerated dough for one hour. i also used 1 extra tablespoon of butter and they came out perfect. though they can be hard to take off tinfoil. Amazing! taste ok but make up for it in looks.
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