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gingerbread biscuit

Christmas Tree Gingerbread

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Prep

50 mins

Bake

10-12 mins

Serves

10-12

Difficulty

Medium
gingerbread biscuit

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Spice up your Christmas with this yummy gingerbread tree - fun for all the family!

made using

Light Muscovado

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Step 1

Rub the butter into a mixture of flour, bicarbonate of soda and ginger in a mixing bowl. Once you get fine breadcrumbs, add the Light Muscovado Cane Sugar.

Step 2

Make a well in the centre, drop in the egg and Lyle's Golden Syrup and mix them in with a wooden spoon to make a soft, smooth dough.

Step 3

Preheat the oven to 190°C/170°Fan, 375°F, Gas. While it warms up, turn the dough out onto a lightly floured surface and knead. Roll it out to 5mm (¼”) and cut out 6 different sized stars with star cookie cutters. Transfer them into 2 lightly greased baking trays, then re-roll the remaining dough and repeat the process until you have least 18 stars.

Step 4

Bake on the top and middle shelves for 10-12 minutes, swapping trays halfway, until slightly darkened. Leave them for a few minutes to firm up, and then transfer them to a wire rack.

Step 5

Don't forget the icing - lightly whisk the egg white in a mixing bowl and gradually sift in the icing sugar. When the consistency is a bit like toothpaste (but tastier), add a few drops of green food colouring with a fine skewer and mix well. Spoon the icing into the piping bag.

Step 6

To assemble your tree blob four small dollops of icing on the top of an empty Lyle’s Golden Syrup tin and secure a large star to it. Place a single blob of icing in the centre of the star and gently press another large star on top – with its points going in a different direction.

Step 7

Repeat with all the stars going from large to small until you have a Christmas tree shape.

Step 8

Decorate with more green icing, silver balls and a sprinkle icing sugar for a snowy finish.

TOP TIP

For an even softer gingerbread, roll the dough a little thicker.

Ingredients – 7 items

Serving

1

GINGERBREAD

Flour

Plain flour

And a little extra for rolling

350 g
Baking-soda

Bicarbonate of soda

1 tsp
Ginger-Ground

Ground ginger

2 tsp
Butter

Unsalted butter

Cubed

110 g
Fairtrade Light Muscovado

Fairtrade Tate & Lyle Light Muscovado Sugar

175 g
Eggs

Egg

Large, beated

1
Lyle's-golden-syrup

Lyle’s Golden Syrup

4 tbsp

ICING

Egg whites

Large

1
Fairtrade Cane Icing Sugar

Fairtrade Tate & Lyle Icing Sugar

175 g
Food-colouring-liquid

Green food colouring

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