Christmas tree biscuits

Ideas
20 servings Prep: 1 hr, Cooking: 12 mins
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Dairy

By Food24 November 03 2009
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Ingredients (14)

125.00 g butter
110.00 g castor sugar
5.00 ml vanilla — essence
1.00 eggs — large
270.00 g flour — cake
65.00 ml cornflour
5.00 ml Baking powder
1.00 ml salt
DECORATIONS
almonds — slivered
250.00 ml icing sugar
poppy seeds
cinnamon sugar
silver balls
gold or silver ribbon
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Method:

Beat butter and castor sugar together until light. Add vanilla essence and egg.
Sift dry ingredients and add to creamed mixture. Knead to form a stiff dough. Roll out on a lightly floured board to a thickness of 4 mm.
Cut into tree shapes. Using a straw, make a small hole in the top of each tree shape.
Transfer to greased baking trays. Decorate a quarter of the tree shapes with almonds and leave the others plain. Bake in a preheated oven at 180 ºC for 10-12 minutes until light brown.
Allow biscuits to cool thoroughly, then decorate remaining biscuits.
Mix together icing sugar and 25-30 ml hot water to make a smooth icing. Spread two thirds of the plain trees with icing. Sprinkle half of these with poppy seeds and the other half with cinnamon sugar. Make small dots of icing around the edges of the remaining plain biscuits. Press a silver ball on to each icing dot and wait for icing to set.
Once set, thread silver or gold ribbon through the holes at the top of each tree. Tie ribbon together with a knot to form a loop. Hang biscuits on the Christmas tree. Makes 20.



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