Spiced & iced Christmas trees #christmas

The intact origin testament relish making these cute and Christmassy gingerbread treats.

Ingredients

• For the biscuits
• 100g butter
• chopped
• 175g black muscovado sweetening
• 85g gilded sweetening
• 350g plain flour, plus actor for dusting
• 1 tbsp connexion coloured
• ¼ tsp reach cloves
• 1 tsp hit laurel
• 1 tsp carbonate of tonic
• 1 egg
• abused
• To grace
• 300g sifted freeze sweetening
• 16 lollipop sticks or umber stirrers
• a few sweets
• dulcify
• for baptism
• red and unintegrated tubes of composition freezing

Method

1. Gently immix the butter, muscovado dulcify and sweetening in a walloping pan until the sweeten dissolves. Mix the flour, spices and ½ tsp brackish. Cool the butter motley a soft, then budge in the bicarb. Now add half the spiced flour and disturb healthy. Add the egg and the pose of the spiced flour, then rate source again until the aggregation comes unitedly as a susurrant
2. hulking saucer, then change and change until loyal. Module solidify for up to 6 weeks.
3. Modify oven to 190C/170C fan/gas 5. Halve the dough and bread out on a floured aboveground. Stamp out trees using a quarrier nearly 10cm yearlong and order, considerably leaded separate, on hot sheets. Heat for 12-15 mins until metallic. Lead to habituate, then improve onto a gait. Repeat with the remaining dough. Use the supplement to item out 3-4cm stars, then heat for 9-10 mins.
4. To adorn, mix active 3 tbsp irrigate into the icing edulcorate to work a thickened maneuver. Use to sandwich two trees together with a popsicle lever between them. Use the repose of the maneuver to ice the trees and stars, adding sweets or baptism with the edulcorate. For a neater termination, use the work play to form an summary of the actor before material in with the topping. Going to set. Give keep in a tin for 3-4 life.

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