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Christmas spice biscuits

  • Time to make: 35 mins
  • Serving: 17 people (makes 34)
Ratings: 5.0
Ingredients

Ingredients

  • Biscuits
  • 1 cup (150g) plain flour
  • ½ cup (80g) wholemeal plain flour
  • ½ teaspoon baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon cinnamon
  • ½ teaspoon ground ginger
  • ¼ cup (30g) ground almonds
  • 100g reduced-fat spread
  • ⅓ cup (75g) brown sugar
  • 1 tablespoon golden syrup
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla essence
  •  1 egg
  • Icing
  • 1 cup (160g) icing sugar
  • 1-1 ½ tablespoons lemon juice
  • silver cachous for decoration
  • Always check food labels for allergens or trace warnings before buying your ingredients.
    Ingredients

    Instructions

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    1 Preheat the oven to 170°C and line 2 biscuit trays with baking paper.

    2 Sift the flours, baking powder and spices. Return husks of wholemeal flour to flour mix and stir in almond meal.

    3 Cream the spread, sugar, golden syrup and vanilla essence until combined. Beat in egg until smooth. Fold in flour mix and stir until combined.

    4 Wrap dough in plastic wrap and chill for 15 minutes.

    5 Roll out dough between 2 pieces of baking paper until 4mm thick. Use biscuit cutters to cut out biscuits and place on trays. Re-roll dough again using up scraps and cut out more biscuits.

    6 Cook for 10 minutes, swap trays and cook for another 3-5 minutes or until lightly golden and just firm. Leave on tray for 5 minutes and cool on a wire rack.

    7 To make icing sift icing sugar and stir in lemon juice until icing is smooth. Use a piping bag to pipe on icing swirls and decorate with cachous.

    HFG tip

    This dough freezes well.

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