If only break ups felt as good as Debby Harry made them sound. These heart of glass cookies are instant classics; they make any cookie pop and are oh so easy!
- Follow the recipe for sugar glass, tint it any color (pinks, reds, purples for the cupidly inclined).
- Prebake your cut out sugar cookie for 3-5 minutes on parchment paper (not slipmats, no one likes their cookie of glass to have wavy patterns on it).
- Place your broken up sugar glass in your cut out and continue to bake for 3-5 minutes.
- Let cook on parchment paper -if going for a harder, rough around the edges geode look, sprinkle more broken sugar glass onto the melted sugar glass immediately when the cookie is out of the oven.
- Then frost and decorate as you wish.
- If you are living in an 80s movie, give them to that guy who is a macho jerk, but who you think will change with the gift of your love. Watch as he throws them on the sidewalk before pulling you in for a kiss. End scene.
- Please do not give these cookies to macho jerks. They never change. Even when given cookies.
alton brown's sugar cookie
Ingredients
- 3 c flour
- 3/4 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1 c butter softened
- 1 c sugar
- 1 egg, beaten
- 1 tbs milk
- powdered sugar for rolling out dough, or flour
Instructions
- sift together flour, baking powder and salt, set aside
- with stand mixer, beat sugar and butter until light and fluffy
- add egg and milk and combine
- add in flour, mixing on low. beat until mixture pulls from side of bowl
- make 2 disks of dough, place in plastic bag and put in fridge for at least 2 hours (longer is better, so egg protein has a chance to spread)
- pre heat oven to 375
- powder rolling surface or parchment paper with powdered sugar and roll out dough about 1/4'' thick. you can either pull dough away from cutter and leave shape on parchment paper or transfer the shape to another sheet of parchment paper using a spachula.
- place parchment paper on cookie sheet and bake for 9-11 mintues
broken glass sugar
Ingredients
- 2 c sugar
- 1 c corn syrup
- 1/4 tsp cream of tartar
- 3/4 c water
Instructions
- bring all ingredients to boil, stirring until boiling sugar dissolves
- reduce heat to medium high and wait for the temp to rise to 290- 300 degrees, any less and it won't harden, you dont need to stir at this point, just let it do its thing
- immediatly pour molten sugar into a rimmed sheet pan coated and tilt it to coat the entire pan
- let it cool (for at least 2 hours), then crack it by slamming the sheet pan, to get pieces of broken, delicous "glass" to decorate all your morbid halloween confections! you must line where you insert the glass with red food coloring for maximum effect.
royal icing
this is a great coating for a huge cookie, it firms up and is pretty hardy!
Ingredients
- 6 c confectioners sugar sifted!
- 3/4 c water
- 1/3 c meringue powder
Instructions
- with mixer on low, drizzle water over confectioners sugar
- mix on low for about 7 minutes, do not put mixer any higher than low or you get loads of air bubbles
- add coloring as needed, if you want thicker frosting, add more sifted confectioner sugar in 1/4 c increments