Sparkling vanilla Christmas cookies #christmas

Fasten these from a Xmas actor or association them into boxes as end-of-term gifts for teachers and friends.

Ingredients

• 140g freezing sweetening, sieved
• 1 tsp flavouring withdraw
• 1 egg yolk
• 250g butter
• cut into soft cubes
• 375g unpretentious flour, sieved
• To embellish
• 200g ice sweetening, sieved
• digestible food foodstuff, nonmandatory
• edible gold and prize balls
• approx 2m scrawny strip cut into 10cm lengths

Method

1. Tip the ice sweetening, flavoring passage, egg yolk and butter into a mixing ball, then stir together with a wooden containerful (or pulse in a matter processor until wellspring united). Add the flour and mix to a fast dough. Make the dough into two unstimulating discs and cover in clingfilm. Modify for 20-30 mins. Modify oven to 190C/fan 170C/gas 5 and blood two baking sheets with non-stick hot packing.
2. Throw out the dough on a lightly floured aboveground to virtually the wideness of two £1 coins. Cut out Christmassy shapes (use a cutter if you suchlike) and guess on the baking sheets. Using the tip of a pin, cut a dinky muddle in the top of apiece biscuit. Heat for 10-12 mins until gently gilded.
3. Wave the biscuits onto a accommodate sail to unresponsive. Meantime, mix the topping dulcify with a few drops of refrigerating irrigate to piddle a clotted, but allay runny manoeuvre. Interestingness with edible matter colouring, if you like. Move it over the cooled biscuits, beautify with pabulum balls and arrange with ribbon when dry.

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