Jewel Cookies - Simple Ingredients, Simply Delicious

Posted on Apr 29, 2015

You'll never believe a recipe of such simple ingredients makes cookies as delicate and gorgeous as these. <a href="http://www.craftfoxes.com/category/cake-food">**Bake them**</a> year-round for graduation parties, backyard wedding receptions, and the holidays. Can't do gluten? CraftFoxes has <a href="http://www.craftfoxes.com/how_tos/lou-s-gluten-free-lemon-cupcakes">your sweet tooth</a> covered. **Ingredients**: 1.6 cups flour (7 oz or 200 g) 1/2 cup sugar (3½ oz or 100 g) scant 1/2 cup salted butter (3½ oz or 100 g) 2 egg yolks *For Decoration* Candy Icing sugar Jam Colored sugar Icing (icing sugar and egg white)

Step 1

Place flour, sugar and butter into a food processor and process until fine. Add egg yolk and process until combined. Cover mixture and let sit overnight.

Step 2

Roll mixture out and cut with cookie cutters into your favorite shapes.

Step 3

To put candy in the cookies, use a small cutter to cut holes in the cookies. For jam tarts, use the leftover pieces removed from candy cookies as the lids of the tarts.

Step 4

Cook for 20–30 minutes at 360°F (180°C). For candy cookies, place candy into the holes after 15 minutes.

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When the cookies have cooled, dust with icing sugar or use the icing as a glue to attach decorations such as colored sugar or crushed candy.

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This recipe is excerpted with permission from <a href="http://amzn.to/1BFR7zs">"Stylish Dress Book: Wear with Freedom"</a> by Yoshiko Tsukiori (Tuttle Publishing).

This copy is for your personal, noncommercial use only.