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Sparkly Christmas Biscuits

Prep

40 mins

Bake

15-20 mins

Serves

25

Difficulty

Easy

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Coated with a zesty orange flavoured icing, these Christmas biscuits are the festive snack of the season.

made using

Golden Caster

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Step 1

Pre-heat the oven to 180C/160Cfan/gas 4. Grease two baking sheets.

Step 2

Put the Lyle’s Golden Syrup into a small pan with the butter, Tate & Lyle Golden Caster Sugar and orange zest. Put over a low heat and stir until the butter has melted, then remove from the heat and allow to cool.

Step 3

Sieve the flour with the spices into a large bowl, stir in the ground almonds. Add the butter mixture and egg and mix until the dough comes together. Knead the dough on a lightly floured surface. Wrap in cling film and chill for 30 minutes.

Step 4

On a lightly floured surface, roll out the dough to a thickness of 5mm( ¼” ) and cut out stars, or Christmas shapes, as wished. Gather up the scraps of dough, knead again and reroll. Cut out as many shapes as possible.

Step 5

Lift them onto the baking sheets with a palette knife. Bake for 15 minutes until they are just beginning to brown at the edges. Remove the cooked biscuits from the oven, while they are still warm, take a fine skewer and make holes in the cookies so a ribbon can be threaded through to hang on the Christmas tree. Transfer them to a wire rack to cool completely. Store in an airtight container for up to a week.

Step 6

To decorate, put the Tate & Lyle Icing Sugar in a bowl and add the orange juice to make a thick Icing. Either drizzle over the biscuits or spoon into a piping bag fitted with a small plain nozzle and pipe decoratively. Add silver balls or sprinkles as wished, then leave to set.

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You can decorate these biscuits however you like so it's a great chance to get the kids involved!

Ingredients – 9 items

Serving

1

For the biscuits

Lyle's-golden-syrup

Lyle’s Golden Syrup

2 tbsp
Butter

Butter

Unsalted

75 g
Fairtrade Golden Caster

Golden caster sugar

50 g
Orange-zest

Orange zest

Grated

1 tsp
Flour

Self raising flour

250 g
Cinnamon

Cinnamon

Ground

1 tsp
Ginger

Ginger

Ground

1 tsp
Almonds

Almonds

Ground

50 g
Eggs

Egg

Beaten

1

To decorate

Fairtrade Cane Icing Sugar

Fairtrade Tate & Lyle Icing Sugar

225 g
Orange-juice

Orange juice

6 tsp

Sprinkles

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