Christmas tree biscuits

Preparation time: 30+ minutes

Cooking time: 7-15 minutes

Cooling time: 2 hours

A beautiful shortbread biscuit stacked with green icing, decorated with edible beads and a star. A perfect treat for a perfect Christmas



Ingredients:

For the biscuits
150g Butter
125g Sugar
1 Egg
Vanilla extract
275g Plain flour
1tsp Baking powder

For the icing
225g Butter
500g Icing sugar
2tbsp Milk
Green food colouring

Decoration
Red and white edible beads
Yellow edible stars

Method:

1. Preheat the oven to 150℃ and line 3 baking trays with grease proof paper. Cream the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy. Mix the egg and a dash of vanilla. Add the flour and baking powder and mix well.

2. You will need about 6 big biscuits, medium biscuits and small biscuits. Weigh out 6 30g cookie dough balls and place them on one tray. Then weigh out 6 20g cookie dough balls and place them on the next tray. Finally weigh out 6 12g cookie dough balls. Press down slightly and bake in the oven for about 7-15 minutes depending on the sizes or until golden brown.

3. When cooked, remove from the oven and set aside to cool. To make the icing cream the butter until smooth. Heat up 2tbsp of milk and add to the mixture. Gradually add the icing sugar and mix until smooth. Add the green food colouring until the shade of green you want.

4. Empty the red and white beads into a bowl and the yellow stars in another. (You may need some tweezers, they can be very handy!) Place the icing into the piping bag with a star nozzle.

5. Place the big biscuit as a base and pipe a circle around the biscuit. Gently place the medium sized biscuit on top of the icing and pipe another circle around the biscuit and place the small biscuit on top and finish off with a little swirl on top of the small biscuit. Carefully decorate with red and white beads and place a yellow star on top of the swirl. Repeat this for all and place in the fridge when done.

Merry Christmas Everyone!

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