Making a stained glass window for a gingerbread house, candy canes

This is one of the stained glass windows I made in a gingerbread house.  This is as easy to make.  First at the end of the holiday season the stores sell their candy canes very cheap.  I buy the different flavored candy canes which are all different colors.  What you do is smashed them down in a ziplock bag then put the pieces in your blender and chop them down to a powder consistency.  I keep all the candy cane powder in mason jars it keeps very well from year to year.  You can use this favored colored powder for in your hot chocolate to give it a different flavor if you want.  Now back to the window.  You take a piece of parchment paper and put it on a cookie sheet.  Next dump some of this candy cane flavored powder on the sheet I sprinkle it on and make it an 8th of an inch thick.  Next set your oven at 350 degrees. Once it finishes preheating, put it in the oven.  I keep an eye on the cookie sheet, it only takes seconds for the power to start to bubble.  Make sure all the candy cane powder is bubbling (just a little bit of bubbling, if it’s bubbling too much you left it in too long).  Once you see the bubbles, take it out of the oven and use a spatula to smooth out the melted powder ( if you need to reuse the spatula, make sure that you rinse it off with hot water to get the hardened candy cane off).  When it cools down enough that is flexible you can use scissors to cut it and leave it on the parchment paper, don’t take it off.  Cut the paper along with it. If it gets too hard as you cutting it pop it back in the oven for a second or two and take it out and cut it again.  Depending on the size you need you just keep putting it back in the oven each time and cut it.  Make sure you measure the window opening that you need the size to be.  Each of the candy canes come out different colors.  I will show you another colored window in the next photo.

This is another window I needed for the front of the gingerbread house.  If you have any questions about this send me a message at. Sghi50@aol.com. My daughter and I won first place in a gingerbread contest with this house at the Christmas con in Edison, New Jersey. 

Here’s the house, this was taken at the contest.  Hallmark was one of the sponsors.  I’m going to also be posting how We made the furniture, light up light in front, etc.  if your going to enter a contest these are posts you don’t want to miss. 

This is the inside of the house.  It has leather looking furniture.  Everything is edible with the exception of the strand of battery operated lights. Use your imagination and it will soar!