Stained Glass Candy Ornaments


Serves: 5

Ingredients

Directions:

What You Need:
Assorted hard candies, Jolly Ranchers, mints, and other hard candies
Cookie cutters in holiday shapes
Baking sheet
Non-stick cooking spray
Chopstick
Aluminum foil
Ribbon (for hanging the ornaments)

What You Do:
1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
2. Help your child generously spray the cookie cutters with nonstick spray.
3. Help your child wrap the cookie cutters tightly with aluminum foil, leaving the top side uncovered. Place the wrapped cookie cutters on the baking sheet, uncovered side up.
4. Have your child place candies into the cookie cutters in a single layer.
5. Put the cookie cutters in the oven and let them cook for approximately 8-10 minutes or until the candy is fully melted. Let the candy shapes cool for 4 minutes so they harden slightly.
6. Once the candy has cooled slightly, create a hole in each candy shape by inserting the tapered end of the chopstick into each one where you want the ribbon to go.
7. Let the candy shapes cool completely. Once cool and hard, carefully remove the candy shapes from the cookie cutter and foil.
8. Have your child thread a ribbon through the hole in the ornaments.

Now your "glass" ornaments are ready for hanging! Place them on the Christmas tree, hang them in a window, or suspend them from the ceiling for a breathtaking holiday display.

This Stained Glass Candy Ornaments recipe is from the 2011 HomeCook'n Collection Cookbook. Download this Cookbook today.


More Recipes from the 2011 HomeCook'n Collection Cookbook:
HEADLINE RECIPE: Toni's Toffee
TOP ARTICLE: 3 Family Friendly Food Gifts
FEATURED RECIPE: Peppermint Ice Cream Pie
FEATURED RECIPE: Versatile Cream Pie Filling
FEATURED RECIPE: Crazy Good Caramel Sauce
FEATURED RECIPE: Peppermint Divinity
KITCHEN REMEDY: Santa's Gone Nutty
KITCHEN REMEDY: Cute, Practical, No-Bake Christmas Gifts For Neighbors
KITCHEN REMEDY: Merry Christmas from a Chocoholic
TABLE TALK: Christmas Around the World: Cookie Style!
TABLE TALK: Tour de...Spice Rack!
TABLE TALK: 10 Easy and Inexpensive Christmas Decorations Straight From the Kitchen
TABLE TALK: Let Kindness Come with Every Gift
JEST FOR FUN: Halloween Candy Prank
JEST FOR FUN: Moose Hunting in Maine
JEST FOR FUN: Beer Commercial
JEST FOR FUN: You've Got Mail
REFRIGERATOR DOOR: Nutrition: Cooked vs. Uncooked
REFRIGERATOR DOOR: Weekly Newsletter Props
Gingerbread Ornaments
Stained Glass Candy Ornaments
Gingerbread Cookie Ornaments
Salt Dough Ornaments
Apple Cider Syrup
Russian Tea Cookies
Soup in a Jar
Maple Vanilla Granola with Dried Blueberries
Scottish Shortbread
Chinese Almond Cookies
Cinnamon Madeleines
Alfajores
Mom's Scones
Chocolate Peanut Butter Bars
Homemade Peanut Log Candy
Pumpkin Spice Holiday Nuts
Creamy Caramel Popcorn
Cinnamon-y Hot Cocoa Mix
Gumdrop Fudge
German Hazelnut cake
Homemade Nutella
Milk Chocolate Truffles
The Easiest Way to Keep Track of Your Favorite Recipes




"I must say this is the best recipe software I have ever owned."
-Rob

"Your DVO cookbook software saves me time and money!"
-Mary Ann

"Call it nutrition software, meal planning software, cooking software, recipe manager, or whatever you want. It is the software I use to stay healthy!"
-David

"Your software is the best recipe organizer and menu planner out there!"
-Toni

"Thank you so very much for creating such a wonderful cooking recipe program. I think this is the best recipe program there is!"
-Sarah

"I saw lots of recipe software for PC computers but I was having a hard time finding really good mac recipe software. I'm so glad I discovered Cook'n! It's so nice to have all my recipes in a computer recipe organizer. Cook'n has saved me so much time with meal planning and the recipe nutrition calculator is amazing!!!
-Jill

My favorite is the Cook'n Recipe App.
-Tom