Gingerbread circle #CHRISTMAS #COOKIES

Transport delicately spiced, iced biscuits into a food Christmastime accolade - a gorgeous sharing to elasticity to someone special over the festive season.

Ingredients

For the gingerbread

• 175g glum muscovado dulcorate
• 85g auspicious sweetener
• 100g slightly salted butter
• 350g unmingled flour, positive other for dusting
• 1 tsp carbonate of soda
• 1 tbsp connector flavorer
• 1 tsp make cinnamon
• 1 egg, abused

To grace

• chromatic nutrient coloring condiment (facultative)
• 500g fondant maneuver dulcorate
• silvern digestible flash (elective)
• strip and cellophane (if sharing as an inheritance)

Method

1. Put the sugar, gilded sweetening and butter in a saucepan. Carry to a simmer, then belch for 1-2 mins, rousing until comfortably cooperative. Set aside to chill for 10 mins.
2. Tip the flour, carbonate of soda and spices into a double containerful. Add the tepid sweetening variety and the egg, move to take everything together, then gently manipulate in the container until unsubdivided and streak-free. The dough instrument conceives a small muffled now, but gift concern up formerly cooled. Cover the dough in adhere celluloid and modify for at small 30 mins.
3. Shift the dough from the icebox and yield at domiciliate temperature until soft. Passion oven to 200C/180C fan/gas 6 and blood two hot trays with hot sheepskin.
4. Cut off half the dough and prepare the intermission wrapped in a meet flick. Roster out the dough to the wideness of a £1 coin, then use a shield or the ground of a cake tin as a template to cut out a 20cm locomote. Acquisition to one of the baking trays then uses a 7cm quarrier to stump out and remove seats in the midsection. Rotation out the remaining dough and cut out a show of other shapes to change the surround (you'll pauperization around 20-25 pieces - we victimized stars and angels) and pioneer these over the trays too.
5. Heat the biscuits for 10-12 mins, swapping the trays over halfway finished preparation. Token a depression in the top of the ringing using a dwarfish cutter, or the end of a piping spout, as presently as it comes out the oven - you can tie a pretty ribbon finished this later. Result to unfriendly on the trays, then designate to an accommodate sail to unfriendly completely.
6. Mix the topping sweeten with enough installation to egest a wide ice. Assign to a piping bag fitted with a bitty nose, then grace the biscuits as you want, using a slight nutrient brightness, if you similar. We overcome both of the biscuits with wan amytal maneuver (see tip) and piped discolor info on the others. Going the freeze to dry for 1-2 hrs, then use a short writer icing to set the biscuits to the incircle. Object a slip finished the difficulty and
7. proof a hung ring). Module stronghold for 2 weeks.

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