Reindeer biscuits
Prep
25 mins
Cook
10 mins
Servings
18
Difficulty
Medium
Every Christmas, I love baking these adorable reindeer biscuits with the kids. They're incredibly quick to make, ready in just 35 minutes from start to finish, which is perfect for busy festive schedules. The ginger in these bakes is wonderful for digestion and adds such a warm, spicy flavour that feels authentically seasonal. Best of all, they're budget friendly and use simple pantry staples you probably already have at home. The fun part comes at the end when you decorate them with icing, edible eyes, and skittles to create those cheeky reindeer faces. They never fail to bring smiles to everyone's faces and make brilliant gifts too.
Ella x
Ingredients
- 125 gramsessential unsalted butter
- 100 gramsdark brown muscovado sugar
- 4 tbspgolden syrup
- 325 gramsessential plain flour(Essential Plain White Flour)
- 1 tspbicarbonate of soda
- 2 tspground ginger
- 1writing icing(white decorating icing, to decorate (see tip))
- 40edible eyes
- 20skittles(small round red sweets, such as Skittles or M&M’s)
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Instructions
- 1
Preheat the oven to 170°C, gas mark 3. Line 2 large baking trays with baking parchment. Melt the butter, sugar and syrup together in a pan, then remove from the heat.
- 2
Sieve in the flour, bicarbonate of soda and ginger, then stir together to make a stiff dough.
- 3
Roll out on a lightly floured surface to 5mm thick. Using a medium gingerbread man cutter, cut out 18-20 gingerbread men and place onto the prepared trays. Bake for 10 minutes, then remove from the oven and allow to cool.
- 4
Turn the biscuits upside down so the legs become antlers. Decorate with icing to add ears, antlers and a mouth, then use a little icing to stick on the edible eyes and a red sweet as a nose.
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