Christmas trees

AUTHOR
Andrew Gay
DIFFICULTY
easy
RATING
4 4
COOK TIME
90 mins
TOTAL TIME
90 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 2
  • 125 g soft butter
  • 2 tablespoons (40 g) liquid honey
  • 90 g sugar (e.g. finer brown)
  • 1 Tbsp. ground ginger
  • 1 str. tbsp. ground cinnamon
  • 7-10 Tbsp Salt
  • 1 egg + 1 fresh egg white (size M)
  • 350 g Flour
  • 7-10 Tbsp Flour
  • 225 g Icing sugar
  • 4–5 Tsp caramel spread or nut nougat cream (e.g. Nutella)
  • 7-10 Tbsp Sugar sprinkles for sprinkling
  • 7-10 Tbsp Icing sugar
  • baking paper

Directions

  1. 1

    Cream butter, honey, sugar, ginger, cinnamon and 1 pinch of salt with a hand mixer. Stir in 1 egg. Knead in the flour briefly with the dough hooks of the hand mixer. Cover and chill for about 1 hour.

  2. 2

    Roll out the dough on some flour to a thickness of approx. 1⁄2 cm. Cut out 4 circles of the same size with 5 differently sized serrated cutters (approx. 3-9 cm Ø) and 2 small circles with a small serrated cutter (approx. 2 cm Ø).

  3. 3

    Then cut out another 2 stars (each approx. 4.5 cm Ø). Place the circles and stars on baking trays lined with baking paper. Bake in the preheated oven (electric cooker: 200 °C/circulating air: 175 °C/gas: level 3) for about 10 minutes.

  4. 4

    Let it cool down.

  5. 5

    Sift icing sugar for the icing. Beat 1 egg white and icing sugar in a high mixing bowl with the hand mixer until thick and creamy. Set aside the 2 small round biscuits and the stars. Glue 2 of the remaining biscuits of the same size together with some caramel spread.

  6. 6

    Glue these biscuits according to size together with the icing to form 2 Christmas trees. Glue 1 small circle with the icing on each tree.

  7. 7

    Spread the stars with icing and sprinkle with sugar sprinkles. Spread the remaining icing on the two small circles and stick the stars on. Leave to dry. Dust the trees with icing sugar.