1. Preheat the oven to 160°C/320°F/Gas Mark 3. Line three baking trays with parchment
2. Mix the butter and sugar by hand until smooth. Add the flour & spices then mix it together using your hands.
Stained Glass Cookies A fun and tasty way to combine messy play with cooking. Depending what time of year it is you can choose your shape to make.
Ingredients - makes 25-30:
200g unsalted butter, at room temperature 125g golden caster sugar 250g plain flour 1 tsp mixed spice
A pinch each of ground cinnamon, ground ginger & ground black pepper
25-30 coloured boiled sweets like Fox’s Glacier Fruits
Equipment: Star cookie cutters in two sizes - one to cut the main shape, and one for the hole inside.
3. Lightly flour a work surface and, using a floured pin, roll the dough out to about 5mm thick. Cut your large stars and transfer to the baking trays. Then cut out the centres using the smaller cutter, or by hand. Be sure to leave about 1cm of biscuit all around the hole, otherwise your finished biscuits will be too fragile to hang. Continue until all the dough is used up
4. Place a sweet in the centre of each biscuit, and then pierce a hole in the top of each using a straw.
5. Bake in the centre of the oven for 15-20 minutes. The biscuits - and sweet centres - will harden once they’re out of the oven, so don’t worry if they look a bit squidgy.
6. Transfer the trays to a wire rack, but don’t move the biscuits until the centres have had time to fully harden - about ten minutes should do it. Then remove from the parchment and leave to cool properly.
7. String each hole with ribbon and place the biscuits somewhere the light can shine through, for maximum stained glass effect!
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