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Christmas recipes: Gingerbread snowflake biscuits
Updated: 2009-12-04                                Share this?...Click box   Bookmark and Share
 
Let it snow: Gingerbread snowflake biscuits
 
Makes 26 8cm (3 1/4in) biscuits (more or less, depending on the size of your pastry cutter)
 
INGREDIENTS
 
375g (13oz) plain flour, plus extra for rolling
 
2tbsp ground ginger
 
1tsp ground cinnamon
 
1tsp baking powder
 
1tbsp cocoa powder
 
125g (4 1/2oz) butter, softened
 
125g (4 1/2oz) light muscovado sugar
 
1tbsp black treacle
 
1tbsp golden syrup
 
1 large egg, lightly beaten
 
METHOD
 
Preheat the oven to 180°C/160°C fan/gas 4. Sift together the flour, ginger, cinnamon, baking powder and cocoa powder. In a separate bowl, beat together the butter and sugar with an electric hand whisk until it is slightly creamy. Add the treacle, golden syrup and egg. Beat until smooth. Using a wooden spoon, gradually add the flour mixture, a little at a time, and then finish off with your hands, to form a smooth dough, kneading lightly on the worktop. Roll out the dough on a lightly floured surface to around the thickness of a £1 coin. Using a pastry cutter, cut out as many small or large biscuit shapes as you like, and place on greased baking sheets. There is no need to space them well apart as the dough won’t spread while cooking. Place in the preheated oven and cook for 10-12 minutes, until they are starting to firm up. If you want to hang them on your Christmas tree, make a hole with a skewer while they are still hot. Transfer to a wire rack to cool. Once cold, the biscuits can be decorated like snowflakes (or with whatever pattern you like). Use coloured writing icing tubes - mine were done with Barbie glitter ones.
 
TOP TIP
 
The snowflakes will keep, un-decorated, for 3 weeks in an airtight container. If they are decorated too soon, they will become soft.
 
   
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Hi ozgal, you can try Metro, a bakery I know said they purchase materials there. They have muscovado sugar and golden syrup.
There is an imported food grocery called Nice Day Shop (near Marco Polo Hotel) sells imported syrup and sugar but I don't know their brands, maybe you can have a try.
Metro 麦德龙
Ad: No.8 Changhao Road, Huli District, Xiamen
厦门市湖里区长浩路8号
Tel: 0592-5758888
Nice Day Shop美一天
Ad: No. 31-35 Jianye Road, Siming District, Xiamen
厦门市思明区建业路31-35号
Tel: 0592- 5082286
    Forrest    09 Dec 2009
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Thanks for the recipe - but where doesone find muscovado sugar, black treacle and golden syrup in Xiamen?
    ozgal   04 Dec 2009