Christmas Biscuits

Hello Everybody!
Welcome to my blog. Today's post is for those out there that like their Christmas bakes to be simple, yet festive. Using my go-to biscuit recipe I've created two biscuit designs that are relatively simple to create (although one of them requires a lot of patience), and are perfectly appropriate for the holiday season.
So let's get started...



You will need:

• double the quantities of my go-to biscuit recipe 
• christmas tree cookie cutter
• small piping nozzle
• jam, fruit curd, chocolate spread or any other coloured filling of your choice
• round cookie cutter
• one egg white (you should have this left over from the biscuit recipe) 
• 225g icing sugar
• edible silver balls or pearls

Bauble Tree Biscuits:

1. Take half of the biscuit dough and use the Christmas tree cutter to create the biscuits

2. Place the tree biscuits onto a lined baking tray, then using the base of the piping nozzle cut out little circles from half of the christmas trees 

3. Bake the biscuits according to my recipe

4. After allowing the biscuits to cool, pair each plain Christmas tree with one that has holes a.k.a the baubles 

5. Taking any filling of your choice, I used raspberry jam, lime curd and Nutella, spread it on the base of the plain Christmas tree. It helps to mainly place the filling in the middle so that it will rise through the bauble holes

6. Sandwich each biscuit together, making sure you squeeze the biscuit tightly together as this will cause the filling to rise into the holes and be more visible. For some of the biscuits I used two fillings to create different coloured baubles

bottom row left to right: Nutella, jam and lime curd

7. Sprinkle some icing sugar on top and your mini Christmas trees are complete!

Snowflake Biscuits: 

1. Using the left over half of dough, roll it out and cut circle shaped biscuits

2. Bake the biscuits according to the recipe and allow to completely cool afterwards

3. Prepare some royal icing. Mix together the discarded egg white from the biscuit recipe and 225g of icing sugar. Pop the icing into a piping bag fitted with a small round nozzle, I used two differing sized nozzles but one will do just fine too! 

4. At this point you can either let your creative mind run free, or you can turn to google for some assistance

5. I simply searched 'snowflake designs' and found some that I liked. Most of the designs look complicated but once you break them down, you can recreate any design you like! Most of the snowflakes begin with four simple lines to create a start outline. From there, smaller details are added (this is when an even smaller nozzle can be handy) 

6. Use your piping bag like a pen and 'draw' your chosen designs onto each biscuit

7. If you want to you can add some edible silver balls and pearls to jazz up your snowflakes

And you've completed your Christmassy biscuits! 

Thank you for reading, and I truly hope you all have a friend & family filled, enjoyable festive time :)