Christmas Biscuits
- Total Time: 10 Minutes
- Yield: 20 1x
Description
Christmas biscuits recipe which is easy to follow, and where you can be creative and do some great Christmas biscuits that are decorated in different styles. For ideas see below the recipe card.
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This Christmas biscuit recipe has no spice in it. If you wanted to, you could add half a teaspoon of mixed spice to the ingredients. I usually keep mine to plain vanilla, as the children that are round me most, tend to prefer them that way.
I have two different styles of Christmas biscuits that I like to make. I have the shortbread style one that I make, but this is the firmer type of biscuit, which makes it easier for decorating and using for tree decorations!
Ingredients
- 100g Butter softened
- 100g Caster Sugar
- 1 Large egg beaten
- 280g Plain flour
- 1Tsp Vanilla extract
- Decorations that you wish to use.
Instructions
Preheat the oven to 190 degrees centigrade. Also line a large baking tray with baking paper.
Beat the butter and caster sugar until light and fluffy, this might take a couple of minutes. Then gradually add in the vanilla extract along with the egg making sure you alternate between adding some egg and then adding some flour. Do this until each has been used up.
Roll out the dough onto a lightly floured surface and cut the shapes out, placing them on the baking tray. Make sure you do not put the shapes too close together. If you wish to use them as Christmas decorations then make sure you put a hole in using a skewer, or something similar. That way when they have cooked and hardened, you shall be able to thread some ribbon through.
Bake for around 8-10 minutes and then let them stay on the baking tray until they have firmed up. If you try to move them sooner, they could break apart. Then allow them to cool full on a wire rack until completely cold. If you decorate whilst slightly warm, you might get in a mess!
Notes
Look below the recipe card for ideas on decorations.
- Prep Time: 10 Minutes
- Cook Time: 10 Minutes
- Category: Baking
- Method: Oven
- Cuisine: British
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1/20
- Calories: 110
- Sugar: 4.9g
- Sodium: 4.5mg
- Fat: 4.4g
- Saturated Fat: 2.6g
- Unsaturated Fat: 0.3g
- Trans Fat: 0g
- Carbohydrates: 15.7g
- Fiber: 0.4g
- Protein: 1.8g
- Cholesterol: 20.1mg
How do you decorate Christmas Biscuits?
How you decorate your Christmas biscuits is up to you. I like to style them different each year. Last year, I just cut out pale blue fondant icing the same shape as the cookie, stuck it on the top with a little smooth apricot jam to help keep it stuck in place, and then decorated with white icing.
Kids in particular love decorating Christmas biscuits. They seem to enjoy the runny icing and then adding as many sprinkles as they can possibly load on it. It is all part of Christmas baking fun, even though you may find the kitchen floor is somewhat of a disaster! This year, I may go Scandi style, with red fondant and white icing. I might even make a few different batches. If you want an idea of some great cookie cutters, my affiliate link is below to some that I like.
For runny icing follow the packet instructions on your icing sugar. You can also add colourings, however I find the gel colourings are better as they don’t make the icing too runny then. The best bit of advice I can give when it comes to icing, is to add the water with caution, bit by bit. Eventually you will find the consistency you are happy with. For the gel colourings I like the ones below in the affiliate link. Use only the smallest amount for a hint of colour.
Fondant icing is easier to work with. Use my advice in the narrative above by glueing it on with apricot jam. I am not keen on these food glues, as they tend to have a weird taste to them. Smooth apricot jam is sticky and tastes far nicer!