Stained Glass Biscuit

[TrickyD]

Has anyone made these successfully? I mean the ones where you cut out a hole in the middle of the biscuit, fill hole with crushed boiled sweets and bake. Then you hang them on the tree where they are much admired.

I had a go last year, but DH has kindly reminded me that I said "Never again" .

Fiddly to make, the crushed sweets melted unevenly, and not much admiration.

Any hints other than 'Don't bother" ?

Ah. My life was great in 2012.

Happy baking! I’m about to make a lemon drizzle loaf for a visitor arriving tonight

Yes, not difficult but you need proper silicon paper not cheap grease proof paper

Tunnock, your biscuits are incredible! I'm definitely going to have a go at baking them!

If you do go to ikea for gingerbread supplies (as I did last week!) pick up some of their silicone baking sheets. I use them on almost every baking tray anyway but they’re perfect for these

Not quite the same, I realise, but following on from an old east european tradition of putting sweets wrapped in shiny foil on christmas trees, I sometimes buy boiled sweets in clear wrappers or fruit chews in colourful wrappers and string them up around the tree.

kitchenwitch that sounds lovely!

Thanks, ‘When’!

www.lakeland.co.uk/32261/Christmas-Bauble-Chocolate-Mould---Makes-4-Hollow-Baubles

Lakeland advertised these to me on Facebook (they know me well!) and I don’t think I’ll be able to resist

This is the stuff I use as baking sheet - over and over again. It’s great.

That's great, thanks @tunnocks. I've got all those ingredients, so might give it a go in the next few days.

Do! Don’t eat all the mixture raw. It’s a genuine risk 🤣

I was going to try to do these with my Guides before Christmas (was going to pre-make dough), I'm not sure whether to try or not now

Have a go, Lucysmam , even if the stained glass part doesn't work the rest will taste wonderful.

Poundland do no-stick baking sheets, reusable and they last for ages.

I think I will pass on Tunnock's Lakeland baubles, but on past form I bet hers will be beautiful. I think we need a thread on here to say which of Lakeland's Christmas baking items are actually any good.

I have the ten-piece Christmas tree biscuit set and it is used every year. I double the quantity given in the recipe on the box, make one big one and two smaller ones for the grandchildren. Well worth the £4.99.

On the other hand, last year I liked the look of the pine cone icing moulds and the one with holly leaves and mistletoe. But £12.99 each! I found exact replicas on Amazon for £1.10 each. Results excellent.

I will dig out Xmas mould tomorrow. It's November tomorrow so I will try to get in the spirit without feeling 'it's too early'!

Lucysmam if you make the dough in advance and make the cut-outs big enough to put a whole glacier fruit in, it really will be a fun and easy activity with the guides with a pretty result. Maybe try at home first to give you confidence but do go for it!

Autumn do post what you make! I’d love to see

Perhaps this thread will generate panic buying of glacier fruits, similar to the great cranberry crisis caused by Delia's recommendation.

I've actually found the moulds already while pottering about in between bouts of 'working'.

One xmas tree, one star, one sphere. The angel of the lord sadly went rusty last year and went to the big recycling bin in the sky.

A church mould would be great, for the stained glass windows.

I like this one but it's a little bit pricey.

www.sugarshack.co.uk/church-stainless-steel-cookie-cutter.html

I'll have a hunt in town for the glacier fruits, and a test run, then make up my mind.

The re-useable baking sheets sound like a good idea, I'll have a look for those as well.

@TrickyD any chance of a link to the pine cone icing moulds if you still know which they were? :)

Autumn church mould is really pretty but could be a pain - did you see the windows are not full cut-outs?

lucys look forward to seeing how you get on!

@tunnocks I kind of noticed that the windows aren't full cutouts after I'd posted and thank you for confirming! I may as well just get a cheap version, a square + steeple, and cut the window(s) out with a knife?

I just know OH is going to offer to make me one out of 'bits' in his workshop if I breathe a word of this. He got invested during the boiled sweets hunt

Sainsbury's basic boiled sweets smashed up a bit, place into biscuit at beginning of baking, if you want clear glass use foxes glacier mints. I make the biscuits and a ginger bread house every year, for the biscuits I just google ‘easy biscuits’ and for the gingerbread house I use Mary Berry’s recipe as it sets rock hard and keeps it shape. Last one was thrown away in June when the glass windows melted! @

@TunnockReturns2019 do you not find that Bake & Glide sheet makes whatever you bake taste of something chemically in the sheet? I sort of vaguely noticed it but then a friend pointed out to me he could tell I used the Bake & Glide from the taste of my baking, and now I find if I use my Bake & Glide it REALLY tastes of it.
Now I use catering baking parchment eg www.nisbets.co.uk/vogue-baking-parchment-paper-290mm/cf349

I used boiled sweets from the local post office last time I did it, so maybe a newsagents might have something?

They looked a bit like these. 2 kg is rather a lot though. Perhaps you could buy an MN bag and split them. grin]

I'm won't be joining in these early trials, I haven't made my parkin yet!