Christmas Biscuits – Iced Shortbread

Tue, 5 December 2023

Ingredients:

· 50g Caster sugar

· 150g plain flour

· 100g salted butter

· 1 tsp vanilla extract

· ½ grated orange zest

· ¼ tsp cinnamon powder

· 300g sieved icing sugar

· 50g sieved icing sugar

· red food colouring

· green food colouring

· water

· Raspberry/strawberry jam

 

Method:

1. Preheat oven at 170 degrees Celsius.

2. Mix the softened butter with the sugar, orange zest and cinnamon and vanilla until combined then stir in the flour until it is a crumbly dough but just combines together (you can use a mixer).

3. Roll out between 2 pieces of parchment paper until about 3-4mm thick.

4. Cut out circles and place on baking tray and bake for 12-15 min until just lightly golden.

5. Leave to cool and pair up 2 shortbread biscuits together.

6. Split the icing sugar into 3 bowls, in 1 bowl add in 1 drop of green, add about 1/4 tsp of water at a time to mix to make it really thick (light green icing). The 2nd bowl add in 4 drops of green, add about 1/4 tsp of water at a time to mix to make it really thick (darker green icing).

7. The 3rd bowl just mix with ¼ tsp of water at a time to the icing sugar (white icing).

8. Place the 3 different coloured icing mixtures into 3 different small icing bags.

9. In a small bowl mix up the red colouring and icing sugar and water to make red icing.

10. Decorate with the white icing first and then pipe on the 2 green icings in alternative fashion around the outer edge of the white icing so it is like a tyre and using a toothpick drag the tip through the middle of these piped horizontal lines in a parallel manner to the edge of the circular biscuit, so it looks like a wreath. Then using a different toothpick dot red icing around the wreath to make it look like berries.