" Stained Glass" Cookie Pops

Total Time: 28 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 8 mins

Ingredients

• 1/3 cup vegetable shortening
• 1/3 cup sugar
• 1 egg
• 3 cups flour (mixed with 1/2 tsp baking soda)
• 1/2 teaspoon salt (optional)
• 2/3 cup honey
• lollipops or hard candies, several colors, crushed
• 12 craft sticks

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 375°f
• 2 foil and line cookie sheets.
• 3 measure first 6 ingredients into the bowl.
• 4 mix until a soft dough is formed.
• 5 divide dough into 12 pieces.
• 6 roll the dough between hands making snake shapes about 1/4- inch thick.
• 7 place rope on prepared cookie sheet and form into a design.
• 8 note: be sure dough ends are completely pinched together as these will form the outline of the stained glass picture.
• 9 you can also make flattened cookie balls and use a cookie cutter to insert a shape.
• 10 sprinkle the crushed candies inside the dough outlines, filling the spaces completely and heaping slightly.
• 11 carefully insert a craft stick into cookie, forming a "lollipop.".
• 12 you can also avoid the stick, but i don't recommend it. once you get past the cookie, its all sticky candy from there.
• 13 bake in oven for 8 to 10 minutes, watching carefully. remove cookie sheets from oven and place on counter to cool.
• 14 when cooled, gently peel off foil from each cookie pop. you will have created a beautiful created a stained glass effect!
• 15 wrap each cookie pop in plastic wrap.
• 16 for gift giving, tie with a colorful ribbon.
• 17 these cookies can easily be made by children (with careful supervision).