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Edible Christmas Tree Decorations

Posted by Rachel Marston 24 Nov 2008 1:01pm

Decorate your tree with edible goodies as well as baubles. You can use whatever shaped cutters you have at home, but Christmas ones are extra seasonal. This is a great holiday activity of you need to occupy kids and you could even wrap the decorations up in nice paper and give them away if you are lost for a little neighbourly gift.

Ingredients:
6oz Plain flour
4oz Soft butter
2oz caster (granulated) sugar
1 oz cornflour (cornstarch)

Method:
Mix the butter and sugar together with a wooden spoon or electric beaters until it is pale and creamy. Sieve both the flour and the cornflour into the bowl and mix well. Put a small amount of flour on your working surface and place the dough on this. Shake a little flour on top and roll out about quarter inch thick. Cut out biscuits with your chosen cutters. Using a skewer, carefully make a hole in the top of the shape which is large enough for a ribbon to be passed through once cooked.

Use a palette knife to lift the shortbread onto a lightly greased baking tray, they will crumble easily so be gentle. Bake for 20 minutes in a pre-heated oven at 325F/170C/Gas Mark 3. If the biscuits are ready, they will be pale brown and crisp; if not, return to the oven for a couple more minutes. Shake a small amount of caster/granulated sugar on the top of the shortbread immediately after they have been removed from the oven. Use a palette knife to move them to a cooling rack and store in an airtight tin once they are cold.

I admit we cheated slightly with the icing and bought ready made tubes of colour but if you are really keen you can mix up icing to whatever colour you like using icing sugar, a little water and food colouring, then pipe onto the biscuits and decorate with silver balls or other ready made decorations.

Comments (3)

at 15:34 on 12 December 2008, Sarah Mason said:
Not only cheap but handy to have toddler-friendly decorations - it won't matter if these get smashed or dropped! And enormous fun to make.
at 14:40 on 08 December 2008, Linda blomquist said:
I love the edible Xmas decorations recipe! A really great idea for families and in these days of economic doom and gloom, a reasonably priced recipe idea! Thank you Jordans for a really inspirational recipe!.
at 17:33 on 04 December 2008, gill sutch said:
After spotting these lovely festive biscuits on your site and with it being far too cold to venture outside, I decided that my little girl and I would spend the afternoon baking. They were so easy to make and once they'd cooled down, we devoured two each. They tasted great (as chief shape-cutter and icer, my daughter puts their success squarely down to her input). We are both proud of our efforts - even if our icing does look a bit wobbly.