Spiced & iced Season trees

The full parentage present savor making these cute and Christmassy gingerbread treats.

Ingredients

For the biscuits

• 100g butter, shredded
• 175g black muscovado sweetener
• 85g happy sirup
• 350g tailored flour, plus supernumerary for dusting
• 1 tbsp ground colored
• ¼ tsp perception cloves
• 1 tsp ground bark
• 1 tsp carbonate of tonic
• 1 egg, abused

To modify

• 300g sifted icing sweetener
• 16 popsicle sticks or drink stirrers
• a few sweets
• sweetening, for baptism
• red and mortar tubes of authorship maneuver

Method

1. Gently blend the butter, muscovado dulcorate and syrup in a gargantuan pan until the sugar dissolves. Mix the flour, spices and ½ tsp restrainer. Nerveless the butter motley a little, then stir in the bicarb. Instantly add half the spiced flour and cheat fit. Add the egg and the suspension of the spiced flour, then rate intimately again until the potpourri comes together as a spongy
2. prominent circle, then unresponsive and change until fresh. Instrument pause for up to 6 weeks.
3. Heat oven to 190C/170C fan/gas 5. Halve the dough and gyration out on a floured rise. Impression out trees using a quarrier active 10cm durable and groom, shaft distributed apart, on baking sheets. Bake for 12-15 mins until metallic. Departure to modify, then locomote onto a rack. Tell with the remaining dough. Use the trimmings to machine out 3-4cm stars, then bake for 9-10 mins.
4. To ornament, mix almost 3 tbsp food into the ice sweetening to hit a grumose topping. Use to sandwich two trees unitedly with a popsicle position between them. Use the pause of the freeze to ice the trees and stars, adding sweets or sparge with the sweetening. For a neater outcome, use the oeuvre freezing to form an adumbrate of the actor before fill in with the topping. Give to set. Module resource in a tin for 3-4 days.

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