Edible ginger bread Christmas decorations

Introduce

Chef :

Yui Miles

Edible ginger bread Christmas decorations

I made these delicious edible Christmas decorations last year to decorate my Christmas tree. They are so pretty, delicious and smell incredible 🎄🥰!!

Ingredient

150 g

Cooking instructions

* Step 1

Pre heat oven 180c’

* Step 2

Add soft butter, golden syrup and light brown sugar into a mixing bowl. Stir until all mixture mixed well together.

* Step 3

Add flour, bicarbonate of soda and ginger to a mixing bowl then stir together. Make a well in the centre and pour in the sugar and butter mixture. Use your hand stir together to form a dough

* Step 4

Wrap in clingfilm and let chill for 30mins to firm up.

* Step 5

Lay the dough between two sheets of baking parchment. Press dough lightly with a rolling pin. Roll the dough until it’s about 1 cm thin

* Step 6

Using a biscuit cutter cut out the shapes and use a small circle cutter to cut the circle in the middle. Use bamboo stick or small knife prink a small hole on the top (this will be the hole that you will use the string to thread through to hang your biscuits on the Christmas tree later. Lay them on the baking tray with baking sheet lay on top.

* Step 7

Break up some hard boiled sweet into fine pieces and put some of the sweet in the middle bit of the ginger biscuits. Bake at 190°C (170°C fan) mark 5 for 10 to 12min, until lightly golden brown.

* Step 8

The biscuits won't be firm but will harden when left to cool outside the oven.

* Step 9

When left to cool outside the oven. * Once they set and cool down. You can spray some star dust on then use some festive string to thread through and tie it up. Hang on Christmas tree and decorate on your Christmas and they smell incredible too!!