Cinnamon Christmas Cookies

Is it too early for Christmas recipes? I hope not, because here we are! These cinnamon biscuits are a cross between classic gingerbread men and my cinnamon loaf cake

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Decoration

This was my first time using royal icing and I have to say, it went quite well. I used a pre made tub of royal icing mixed with a bit of extra vanilla, milk and some white food colouring.

You can make the decoration as simple or as complex as you want. I like to keep things simple (because I’m rubbish at art) but there’s a huge opportunity to draw some pretty pictures here if you’re artistically inclined.

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Method:

1. Preheat your oven to 180c Fan and line your trays with baking paper

2. Add your flour, spices and bicarbonate of soda to a bowl and mix it together

3. Cut your butter into cubes and add it to your dry ingredients, then rub it in with your fingers until it looks like breadcrumbs

4. Add your brown sugar and stir it in

5. In a separate bowl, crack your egg and then add your golden syrup. Whisk them together with a fork or small balloon whisk and then pour it into your dry mix

6. Stir it until it starts to form a dough

7. Flour your work surface and then place your dough on top

8. Gently knead your biscuit dough a few times until it form a smooth ball, then roll it out until it’s about the thickness of a £1 coin

9. Cut your biscuits into any shape you like. I did stars, candy canes and Christmas trees

10. Pop them on your lined tray and bake them for 13-14 minutes

11. Take them out of the oven and leave them to cool, transferring them onto a cooling rack after about 5-10 minutes

12. Once they are fully cooled make up your icing. I used a tub of royal icing and just followed the instructions on the tub, but you can make your own if you wish. Give yourself bowl that is a slightly thicker consistency for piping the outline, and the other runnier so you can flood the shape

13. Piper your icing onto your biscuits, doing your outline with the thicker icing first and then filling it with your flooding icing

14. Leave your icing to set, ideally for at least 2 hours and then serve!

    
    

    *These cookies will keep for about a week, but they may lose their crunch if they’re not kept in an airtight container