Home-made Stained Glass Window New Year's Treats

These New year's treats are brilliant festive fun. They look really cold hanging from the New year's tree with the fairy lights shinning through them, and they try good too! They can be good good to make, and make the pantry smell like a tasty factory - Yummy. two packet of frozen pastry. Let to fully defrost, look the return regarding the packet for instructions. two Bag of simple coloured boiled sweets.

First, whilst the pastry is defrosting you can be designing and creating stencils. You should try a star, a New year's stocking, a New year's tree, a bell, a sprig of holly, anything festive and with a New year's theme is great. The stencils need to be simple and they need to have hole inside them. If there is too many detail they may break whilst you can be creating them. Make sure as well that your stencil is an appropriate volume to hang on your New year's tree.

Once you own slice out your New year's stencil leave it on one side until later. Set the stove to 180C or 350F or Gas Mark 5 Line a backing sheet with greaseproof cardboard Lightly powder the surface with wheat to prevent the pastry sticking and roll out the pastry thinly with a rolling pin. Lie your stencil on the top regarding the pastry and carefully slice round it with a knife. The knife does not need to be very sharp, pastry isn't hard to cut. On the top of each shape you own to make a mini hole to thread some ribbon through later such that you can hang the treat on the New year's tree.

Use the handle of a spoon to just push into the pastry to make a mini hole. Location your slice out shapes on the cardboard lined baking tray, such that they don't ever touch. Roll your pastry trimmings up into a ball and re-roll the pastry. Slice out as many New year's shapes as you can, and hold re-rolling the pastry trimmings until all the pastry was used. Fry the New year's shapes within the stove for 8 - 10 minutes.

Rinse the rolling pin due to the fact that you are in for a smashing time! Location a wrapped boiled tasty onto a chopping board and tap it with the rolling pin to smash it. Once broken, unwrap the tasty and collect the broken tasty pieces on saucers, keeping all the colours separated. All the sweets need to be broken up. Hold an eye on the time. Take the pastry shapes out regarding the oven.

Sum different coloured crumbs of sweets to each hole within the pastry shapes. Colours within similar hole shall merge. Experiment and look what designs you can make. Do be careful due to the fact that the baking tray and the pastry should be hot. Place the treats return within the stove for 3 periods to let the sweets melt.

Take the treats out regarding the stove and leave to cool. Peel the treats off the cardboard and deliver or thread ribbon or string through and hang them from your New year's tree.