This Dessert:

Choshen

The choshen that the Kohen Gadol wore was made with twelve precious stones of different colors.

What You Need:

Ingredients

• 1 recipe stained glass cookie dough

• One package of different colored hard candy (ex. Red, blue, green, yellow, etc.)

Things

• 2 sheets parchment paper

• Rolling pin

• Large rectangle cookie cutter

• Smaller rectangle cookie cutter

• Square platter

How to Make It:

1. Lay one sheet of parchment paper down on your work surface.

2. Transfer the cookie dough to your work surface.

3. Cover with another piece of parchment paper.

4. Roll out the cookie dough to ¼ - ½ inch thick.

5. Cut out 12 rectangles with a large rectangle cookie cutter. Then cut out the center of these rectangles with a smaller rectangle cookie cutter.

6. Separate out 3 pieces of each different color candy into individual piles of each color. You will need 12 separate colors. If you don’t have 12 different colors then make some piles with mixed colors that will melt together to make a new color when you bake the cookies.

7. Crush each group of candies separately until you have enough to fill the middle of all the cookies. 

8. Fill each cookie with a different color of candy dust according to the recipe and bake according to the recipe.

9. When the cookies are out of the oven and fully cooled, arrange them on a platter in 3 rows of 4.