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Christmas cookies

These colourful Christmas biscuits can be used as decorations, given as gifts or eaten straight away.

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Christmas cookies. Credit: Donal's Family Food in Minutes

  • makes

    25-30

  • prep

    15 minutes

  • cook

    15 minutes

  • difficulty

    Easy

makes

25-30

serves

preparation

15

minutes

cooking

15

minutes

difficulty

Easy

level

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Ingredients

  • 100 g muscovado sugar
  • 150 g butter
  • 1 large egg (preferably free-range)
  • 350 g plain flour
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • pinch of salt
  • 3 tsp mixed spice
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1 pack Foxes Glacier Fruits, Jolly Ranchers or other colourful boiled lollies

Instructions

  1. Preheat the oven to 180˚C (fan-forced 160 ˚C) and line two baking tray with parchment paper.
  2. In a stand mixer, beat together the butter and sugar. Add in the egg and beat through.
  3. Mix through the flour, baking powder, salt, mixed spice and vanilla extract until you have a biscuit dough consistency.
  4. Turn the dough out onto a floured surface and roll out to about 1 cm in thickness.
  5. Cut out biscuit shapes, place on the lined baking tray, then using a smaller cutter or a small knife cut out the centre of each cookie, arranging these around the tray as well.
  6. Crush the sweets using a rolling pin (they don’t need to be very fine pieces) and arrange them into the centre holes of the cookies.
  7. Cook in the oven for about 15 minutes. If using as decorations, as soon as they come out of the oven, using a straw or end of a piping nozzle, poke out a hole at the top of each cookie. Allow to cool on a wire rack.
  8. String through some ribbon and hang on the tree, or package as gifts.

Cook's Notes

Oven temperatures are for conventional; if using fan-forced (convection), reduce the temperature by 20˚C. | We use Australian tablespoons and cups: 1 teaspoon equals 5 ml; 1 tablespoon equals 20 ml; 1 cup equals 250 ml. | All herbs are fresh (unless specified) and cups are lightly packed. | All vegetables are medium size and peeled, unless specified. | All eggs are 55-60 g, unless specified.

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