Santa Claus Cookies
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Difficulty:
moderate
Difficulty
Preparation:
45 min.
Preparation
ready in 1 hr 22 min.
Ready in
Ingredients
for
25
- Ingredients
- ½ cup honey
- ¼ cup sugar
- ¼ cup butter
- 2 ¼ cups all-purpose flour
- 2 tsps Ginger powder
- 2 tsps cinnamon
- ½ tsp Star anise powder
- ½ tsp ground cloves
- ¼ tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp Baking powder
- 1 ¾ ozs candied Orange peel
- For the glaze
- 1 Tbsp water
- 2 Tbsps lemon juice
- 2 ½ cups powdered sugar
- red Food coloring
Preparation
Kitchen utensils
1 Skillet, 1 Measuring cups, 1 Cutting board, 1 Large knife, 1 Small knife, 1 Tablespoon, 1 Teaspoon, 1 Wooden spoon, 1 Peeler, 1 Slotted spatula, 1 Meat mallet, 1 Plastic wrap, 1 Toothpick
Preparation steps
1.
Heat the honey, sugar and butter until the sugar dissolves. Leave to cool. Mix together the flour and the spices and dissolve the potash and the hartshorn salt in the honey mixture. Stir in the flour-spice mixture and the orange peel, cover and leave overnight in the fridge.
2.
Heat the oven to 400°F.
3.
Roll out the dough approx. 1/4th inch thick on a lightly floured work surface and cut out triangles. Place them on a baking tray lined with grease-proof paper and bake for 20-25 minutes until golden brown. Remove from the oven and leave to cool. The remaining dough can be used to cut out and bake little wedges to help the Santa biscuits stand up.
4.
To make the glaze mix together the water, lemon juice, and icing sugar until smooth. Color 6 tbsp of the glaze with red food coloring for the hats. Fill the white icing sugar into a piping bag and decorate the biscuits. Spread some icing sugar onto the wedges and stick one on to the back of each biscuit.
