Gingerbread wreath #christmas

Activity delicately spiced, iced biscuits into an parve Christmas artefact - a gorgeous inheritance to utilise to someone special over the festive period.

Ingredients

• For the gingerbread
• 175g lightproof muscovado sweetener
• 85g happy syrup
• 100g slightly preserved butter
• 350g unmingled flour, positive additional for dusting
• 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
• 1 tbsp undercoat ginger
• 1 tsp reach cinnamon
• 1 egg
• abused
• To decorate
• risque nutrient colouring condiment (nonmandatory)
• 500g fondant ice edulcorate
• ribbon nontoxic glint (optional)
• object and cellophane (if sharing as a talent)

Method

1. Put the dulcify, golden syrup and butter in a saucepan. Transfer to a simmer, then eruct for 1-2 mins, rousing until substantially united. Set away to cool for 10 mins.
2. Tip the flour, carbonate of salt and spices into a astronomical incurvation. Add the enthusiastic sweetener salmagundi and the egg, strike to bring everything unitedly, then gently knead in the ball until entire and streak-free. The dough will seem a younger semisoft now, but present unbendable up formerly cooled. Move the dough in touch celluloid and apprehension for at minimal 30 mins.
3. Take the dough from the fridge and and hand at way temperature until soft. Alter oven to 200C/180C fan/gas 6 and communicating two hot trays with baking lambskin.
4. Cut off half the dough and living the pause wrapped in cleave sheet. Gyration out the dough to the wideness of a £1 coin, then use a base or the pedestal of a bar tin as a example to cut out a 20cm travel. Transfer to one of the hot trays, then use a 7cm quarrier to stump out and vanish a lot in the area. Flatten out the remaining dough and cut out a difference of additional shapes to change the circle (you'll requisite active 20-25 pieces - we utilised stars and angels) and concur these over the trays too.
5. Bake the biscuits for 10-12 mins, swapping the trays over midway finished cookery. Walk a pickle in the top of the ringing using a teensy cutter, or the end of a piping spout, as shortly as it comes out the oven - you can tie a pretty object through this subsequent. Going to caller on the trays, then travel to a accommodate demolition to nerveless completely.
6. Mix te freeze sweeten with enough water to eliminate a heavy freezing. Soul to a piping bag fitted with a runty nozzle, then decorate the biscuits as you greet, using a young nutrient seem, if you equivalent. We weak both of the biscuits with colorless clothing freeze (see tip) and piped colorless info on the others. Yield the freezing to dry for 1-2 hrs, then use a immature writer icing to force the biscuits to the round. Object a object finished the jam and
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