Stained Glass Cookie Pops

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

1. Preheat oven to 375F
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.
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13. You can also avoid the stick, but I don't recommend it.
14. Once you get past the cookie, its all sticky candy from there.
15. Bake in oven for 8 to 10 minutes, watching carefully.
16. Remove cookie sheets from oven and place on counter to cool.
17. When cooled, gently peel off foil from each cookie pop.
18. You will have created a beautiful created a stained glass effect!
19. Wrap each cookie pop in plastic wrap.
20. For gift giving, tie with a colorful ribbon.
21. These cookies can easily be made by children (with careful supervision).

vegetable shortening, sugar, egg, flour, salt, honey, craft sticks

Taken from www.food.com/recipe/stained-glass-cookie-pops-269973 (may not work)