Biscuits

Vanilla and chocolate spice angel biscuits

Recipe Submitted By: bakingmad

Angles to make and bake for yor Christmas tree. These make pretty gifts too!

Gift boxes are readily available in department stores and craft suppliers. Line the box with greaseproof paper and add the finished decorations. Share the pleasure of home baking this season!

Preparation Time	15 minutes
Baking Time	30 minutes
Portions	8
Skill Level	Easy
Average Rating

Ingredients

125 grams	Butter Cubed
125 grams	Billington's Molasses Sugar
1 tsp	Silver Spoon Cakecraft Natural Vanilla Extract
175 grams	Allinson Wholemeal Plain Flour
1 tbsp	Cocoa powder
1 tsp	Ground Ginger
1	Eggs Large sized
1	Egg Yolk

Additional Ingredients

125 grams	Billington’s Golden Icing Sugar
	Edible dusting powder Gold or silver

Method

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Put the butter into a food processor add the Light Muscovado Sugar and vanilla extract and blend until smooth.
Add the flour, cocoa, ginger, whole egg and yolk. Blend again until the mixture comes together to form a ball.
Turn onto a large sheet of baking parchment and knead the dough lightly for a couple of minutes until it is smooth.
Wrap in the parchment paper and chill for 30 minutes.
Roll out the cookie dough between two sheets of baking parchment until it’s 2.5 mm (1/8th inch) thick.
Stamp out 6 angels using a cutter. Ease away the cookie dough surrounding the heart shapes and roll out these trimmings between two more sheets of baking parchment. Stamp out 2 more angel shapes.
Take a small plain piping nozzle and stamp the tip near the top centre of the angel, to make a hole. Leave the shapes on the baking parchment and slide the paper onto two firm baking sheets.
Bake at 180C (350F) Gas Mark 4 for 10-12 minutes until cookies are firm and golden.
Cool on the paper for 5 minutes, then use a palette knife to cool the cookies completely on a wire rack.
Sift the Golden Icing Sugar into a bowl, add 1 tbsp of cold water, stir and add another 1 tbsp of water to make a smooth piping consistency.
Put a fine plain nozzle into a plastic piping bag and pipe a halo and wings on the angels.
When the icing is firm, thread some white raffia through the holes and hang onto twigs to display as a gift.
For white chocolate iced biscuits, melt 150g (5 oz) white chocolate in a heatproof bowl over a pan of simmering water and use to decorate biscuits instead of the icing.