Name: Siba’s spiced Christmas cookies
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: PTBaking:M
Total time: 15 min
Yield: Makes 12 servings
Cuisine: Desserts & Baking
Ingredients: cake flour 1 ½ cup,baking powder ½ t ,a pinch of fine salt ,ground ginger 1 t,heaped ground cinnamon ½t ,heaped ground mixed spice ½ t,heaped ground nutmeg ½ t,caster sugar 4T ,Muscovado sugar 4 T ,cold salted butter, diced 140 g ,cold water, optional 1 T ,For the royal icing: , large free-range egg whites 3, icing sugar, sifted 450g

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Difficulty Easy

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Cooking Time 1 hour 20 minutes

Ingredients

375 g butter, softened
6 free-range eggs
675 g self-raising flour
1 t ground ginger
1 t mixed spice
495 g brown sugar
1 cup milk
1 T vanilla extract
Woolworths fondant icing, to decorate
Icing sugar, for dusting
Woolworths shimmer gold stars, to decorate
Honey, warmed, for drizzling

Method

1. Preheat the oven to 165°C. Cream the butter and eggs until pale and fluffy. Place the flour, ginger, mixed spice, sugar, milk and vanilla extract in an electric mixer and beat for 8 minutes until pale and smooth.

2. Spread in an even layer in a 35 x 25 x 5 cm baking tray lined with baking paper. Bake for 1 hour and 20 minutes, or until a skewer comes out clean. Set aside to cool completely.

3. Cut stars from the fondant icing using a cookie cutter and use to decorate the cake. Dust with the icing sugar and gold stars and drizzle with the honey.

Cook's note: “Trust me, just bake it! You’ll be the star of the season" - Hannah Lewry.

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