Time for some merry making in the kitchen this festive season…
Deliciously tempting festive treats that could make the ideal christmas gift – leaving your loved ones jolly and wanting more!
This recipe will teach you how to prepare delicious, quick and easy cinnamon biscuits.
Ingredients
- vegetable oil for greasing
- 150g plain flour plus extra for rolling
- 50g caster sugar
- 115g unsalted butter diced
- pinch of sea salt
- ⅓ tsp ground cinnamon
Instructions:
1.
Preheat the oven to 200C and brush two baking trays with oil.
2.
Place the flour, sugar, butter, salt and cinnamon in the bowl of a food processor and whiz to a crumb-like consistency.
3.
Add the egg yolk and bring the dough together into a ball.
4.
Wrap it in cling wrap and chill for 1 hour.
5.
Knead the dough until it is pliable.
6.
On a lightly floured work surface, roll it out to a thickness of about 3mm.
7.
Cut out biscuits using 7cm cutters (or gingerbread shapes), rolling the dough out twice to get around 20 biscuits.
8.
If planning to hang them as decorations, make a hole in each one with a skewer.
9.
Lay the biscuits 1cm apart on baking trays and bake for 9-12 minutes until lightly coloured.
10.
The lower tray may take longer than the top.
11.
Remove the trays from the oven and leave the biscuits to cool for a couple of minutes.
12.
The holes may have closed up slightly in the oven, so use the skewer again to open them as necessary.
13.
Loosen the biscuits with a palette knife and leave to cool completely.
14.
Decorate the biscuits as desired with writing icing and leave to set.
15.
The biscuits will keep well in a covered container for several days.