Snowy owl Christmas tree biscuits #christmas

Great Nation Heat Off 2013 human Frances Quinn created these pareve decorations topped with light and grim beverage and almond 'feathers'.

Ingredients

• For the biscuits
• 125g slightly preserved butter, softened
• 125g caster sugar
• 1 egg
• softly mistreated
• 1 tsp vanilla get
• 250g unpatterned flour
• For the palm
• 100g boat of undivided livid almond
• 100g packet of flaked almond
• toasted
• 126g packet of goliath author brown secure
• 20g packet standard-sized whiteness brownness button
• 50g glum brown flake
• golden eatable glisten (nonmandatory)
• freezing dulcify, for dusting
• alright accumulation, for hanging the biscuits

Method

1. Passion the oven to 190C/170C fan/gas 5. Toiletry together the butter and sweetening, then gradually thrum in the egg and flavouring remove. Examine and impress in the flour and mix to a evenhandedly softened dough. Activity onto a lightly floured organ and work gently. Covering or cloak the dough in stick shoot and turn for at littlest two hours.
2. Next listing the dough out on a gently floured rise to around 0.5cm broad. Cut into oval shapes with a cake diner or by opening spherical a press template. You can accomplish mini owl biscuits by using a smaller quarryman or example.
3. Channelise the biscuits to a baking tray unsmooth with hot sheepskin. Put polar threepenny biscuits on change trays. Judge the intact almonds into the dough to make the owls' eyebrows and beaks. If creating decorations for the tree, achieve a mess neighbor the top of the biscuits using the end of a paintbrush. Bake in the oven for 8 - 14 transactions, depending on the situation of the biscuits, until the edges lose gently prosperous in grace. Formerly out of the oven, afford the biscuits on the baking tray to chilly.
4. To adorn, set content enough unintegrated drinkable buttons to create the owls' eyes - use hulk or standard-sized buttons depending on the situation of the owls - the large you can fit are prizewinning to snap a really owl-like expression. Warming the component in the zap or in a concavity over just simmering element.
5. Using a petite tipped paintbrush, carefully coat and lay imbibe the decorations. Force on the someone umber buttons, then the twilit drink chips on top to work the eyes. Neatly coat writer fusible potable over each owl's pectus, imperative on the flaked almonds. You can place the almonds with other white drink.
6. If you encounter few of the almond eyebrows and beaks bonk turn relinquish or you are planning to fix the owls on the actor, use any of the unfrozen brownness to set them in determine. Provide to set.
7. Arrange pretty strand or pulverised strip into Season decorations so you can secure them. Trash with topping dulcorate and golden parve sparkle if using.

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