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White chocolate and ginger snowflakes
White chocolate gingerbread snowflakes
Edible decorations never stay on the tree for long, especially when they're gingerbread snowflakes decorated with white chocolate
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Ready in 45 minutes
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Cooking time 15 minutes
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Prep time 30 minutes
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Makes 30
Ingredients
- 350 g British plain flour by Sainsbury's
- 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
- 4 tsp ground ginger
- 100 g butter, diced
- 175 g dark soft brown sugar
- 4 tbsp golden syrup
- 1 large free-range egg, beaten
- 100 g smooth white chocolate by Sainsbury's, melted
- 15 strawberry laces by Sainsbury's
- various edible decorations
Method
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1
Preheat the oven to 180°C, fan 160°C, gas 4. Sift the flour, bicarbonate of soda and ginger into a bowl. Rub in the butter to form fine breadcrumbs. Stir in the sugar.
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2
Mix together the syrup and egg, then pour into the dry ingredients. Bring the mixture together with a fork or round bladed knife and knead until smooth. Divide the dough into three. Roll each out to 0.5cm thickness.
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3
Stamp out snowflakes using a large snowflake cutter. Lift the gingerbread on to the baking sheet, a little spaced apart. Make a hole in each snowflake with a cocktail stick, then bake the biscuits for 15 minutes .
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4
When cooked, reshape the hole in the biscuits. Leave to cool and then thread with the strawberry laces. Melt the chocolate in a glass bowl and set over a pan of simmering water.
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5
Place a smaller snowflake cutter on the cooked biscuit and drop a teaspoonful of chocolate in the middle, using a small clean paint brush to spread the chocolate into the cutter shape.
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6
Lift the cutter away and scatter with a few decorations. Leave to set before hanging on the tree.
