American Flag Stained Glass Cookies

🧂 Ingredients

• 1 cup butter
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 large egg
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• ½ teaspoon almond extract
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 3 cups flour
• Jolly Ranchers

  in red and blue flavors, about 5-6 of each color.
• Lifesavers

  pineapple flavor about 5-6.
• Non-stick spray

Instructions

• 1 Pre-heat your oven to 350°F.
• 2 In a mixing bowl, cream the butter and sugar together.
• 3 Add in the egg, vanilla, and almond and mix well.
• 4 In a separate bowl, mix together the flour and baking powder.
• 5 Add in half the flour mixture to the wet mixture and mix.
• 6 Add in the second half of the flour mixture, and mix. The mixture will be dry,
  but keep mixing and kneading until it's a soft, pliable consistency (like play
  dough).
• 7 Sprinkle flour on a flat surface, and on top of your ball of dough, and roll it
  until it's about ¼" – ⅓" thick.
• 8 Cut your rectangles out using the cookie cutter set listed, and place them on a
  cookie sheet that's been sprayed with non-stick spray.
• 9 Use your smaller rectangle cookie cutter to cut the small rectangle out of the
  big rectangle.
• 10 Grind your candy one color at a time until it's in small pieces.
• 11 Make your flag designs using the crushed candy. I started with the blue corner,
  then did the top and bottom red stripes, then the two white stripes, then
  finished with the last red stripe in the middle.
• 12 Bake them at 350 for 8-9 minutes and then remove them from the oven.
• 13 Immediately add the silver stars to the blue from the oven. If you wait too long
  they won't stick.
• 14 Let them cool on the pan for 5-10 minutes, until the candy has hardened.
• 15 Use a metal spatula to remove them from the cookie sheet once the candy is hard
  and place them on a cooling rack to let them finish cooling.

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