I think I spent hours on them. The end result was fairly impressive- I don't think the top picture quite does it justice, but it's the best photo I have. (In retrospect, letting it bake longer in the first stage would have produced a nicer golden-brown color, but the longer I leave it without the candy, the more the shape gets out of shape.

I think the cookies tasted better than the candy portion, but the candy part was so pretty. ;___;


That said, I don't bake that often, but when I do it's usually stupidly fancy cookies that require rolling ten gazillion one-inch balls and brushing with egg-white or rolling with powdered sugar. (It's also usually the same stupidly fancy cookies, because they're pretty and taste delicious.)