Stained Glass Butter Cookies

Ingredients:
2 ¾ cups all-purpose flour

¼ tsp baking soda

¼ tsp salt

250g butter ~ softened

¾ cup granulate sugar

1 large egg

1 tsp vanilla extract

1 tin Fox’s Fruit Sweet

Directions:

1. Using an electric mixer, cream together butter, sugar & vanilla until pale & creamy.  Occasionally scraping bowl with rubber spatula. 
2. Add egg & vanilla, beat until well mixed.
3. Reduce speed to low, gradually beat in sift flour mixture just until blended, occasionally scraping bowl.
4. Mix well & divide the dough into half, press each half into a disc then wrap in cling wrap & refrigerate for about 1 hour.
5. Preheat the oven to 160 C & line 2 baking trays with baking paper.
6. Roll each disc out between 2 sheets of baking paper to about 3mm thick.   Using cookie cutter cut out the desire shapes & place onto the trays.   Repeat the process until the dough finish.
7. Bake the cookies for 15-20 minutes until light golden.   Remove from oven & add 1 candy per cookies in the centre & return to over for an extra 5 minutes to melt.
8. Allow to cool for 15 minutes before removing from the tray & store in an air-tight container.