Description
A wow factor treat for your Christmas tree. These simple and hardy cookies will go the distance in taste and beauty.
Ingredients
Scale
- 350g plain flour
- 1tsp bicarb soda
- 2tsp ginger
- 100g butter
- 175g brown sugar
- 2 tablespoons honey
- 1 beaten egg
- milk to bind together
- Boiled sweets crushed
Instructions
- Grease and line two baking trays.
- Sift the flour, baking soda and ginger together.
- Rub in the butter with your finger tips until the mixture has the consistency of breadcrumbs.
- Add honey, sugar and egg. Form into a dough and add milk a little at a time until a soft palpable dough is formed. Rest it for 5 minutes.
- Flour a surface and roll our your dough until it is around 1/2cm thick.
- Use cutters to make shapes with a space for the window.
- Make a hole in the top with a chopstick or straw.
- Crush a boiled sweet (a garlic crusher works a treat). Place the sweet in the central window try not to sprinkle on the cookie.
- Put all cookies in the oven 180 C for 10-12 minutes or until golden.
- Cool on a baking rack.
- Once the sweets are hardened, gently peel off the baking sheet. Tie string or ribbon through the hole and use to decorate you tree or windows
- Prep Time: 15 mins
- Cook Time: 12 mins