Stained Glass Cookies
Stained Glass Holiday Bars

Stained Glass Cookies

1 cup margarine or butter
3/4 cup sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup quick cooking or old fashioned rolled oats
strawberry preserves
apricot preserves
pineapple preserves, tinted green with food coloring

Beat together butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Blend in egg and
vanilla. Combine salt and flour; add to the creamed mixture, stirring to
blend well. Stir in oats; chill for several hours. Roll out dough about
1/8-inch thick on a surface sprinkled with confectioners' sugar. Cut with
assorted 30inch cookie cutters.
Using smaller cookie cutters or knife, cut out a small design in center of
half of the cookies. Sprinkle nuts over the cookies with cut out centers;
press lightly. Place plain cookies onto greased cookie sheets and top each
with about 1 teaspoons of preserves, spreading slightly. Top each with the
nut covered cookies with cut out portion. Bake at 3750 for 10 to 12
minutes.
Makes about 2 dozen cookies.


Stained Glass Holiday Bars

1 cup butter or margarine, softened
1 cup brown sugar, packed
2 eggs
2 cups all-purpose flour
2 (4 ounce) bars sweet cooking chocolate
1/2 cup butter or margarine
2 cups confectioners' sugar
2 eggs, slightly beaten
1 (10 1/2 ounce) package colored miniature marshmallows
1 cup chopped pecans

Heat oven to 350 degrees F.
Mix the 1 cup butter, brown sugar and stir in flour. Press into an
ungreased 13 x 9 x 2-inch pan. Bake for 25 minutes and cool.
Melt chocolate and the 1/2 cup butter in a 3-quart saucepan over low heat
(or in microwave), stirring constantly until melted. Remove from heat.
Stir
in confectioners' sugar and eggs. Beat until smooth. Stir in marshmallows
and pecans. Spread over cookie base. Refrigerate for at least 2 hours.
Cut into 2 x 1 1/2-inch bars. Store covered with aluminum foil in
refrigerator. Makes 32 bars.

Candied Cherry Holiday Bars
Use white marshmallows instead of colored. Add 1 cup each whole red and
green candied cherries.

Peanutty Holiday Bars
Use white marshmallows instead of colored and 2 cups salted peanuts for
pecans.



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