Spiced Christmas tree butter shortbread recipe
Created by The Tesco Recipes team
For an easy Christmas baking idea, try this spiced Christmas tree butter shortbread. Classic buttery shortbread is given a festive makeover with fragrant spices and a drizzle of white chocolate for a simple Christmassy sweet treat or edible gift idea.
See method- Makes 12-14
- 20 mins to prepare and 20 mins to cook
- 217 calories / serving
Ingredients
- 100g caster sugar
- 150g unsalted butter, at room temperature
- ¼ tsp cinnamon
- ¼ tsp mixed spice
- ¼ tsp ground cardamom or 2 pods, seeds removed and finely chopped
- ¼ tsp ground nutmeg
- 250g plain flour
For the icing
- 100g white chocolate
- edible silver pearls, to decorate
Each serving contains
- Energy
- 905kJ 217.0kcal
- Fat
- 12g
- Saturates
- 7g
- Salt
- 0.0g
- Sugars
- 12g
of the Reference intake
Carbohydrate 24.7gProtein 2.4gFibre 0.8g
Method
- Put the sugar, butter and spices into a large mixing bowl and use a wooden spoon to beat them together to cream the butter and create a smooth mixture. Add the flour and mix together. Use your hands to bring together into a dough and gently knead until smooth.
- Roll the dough out on a lightly floured surface to just under 1cm thick. Use a 5cm Christmas tree cookie cutter to stamp out biscuits, re-rolling the offcuts until you have 12.
- Space out on 2 baking trays lined with nonstick baking paper and chill for 40 mins. Preheat the oven to gas 6, 200°C, fan 180°C.
- Bake for 15-18 mins until pale golden and they smell like biscuits. Leave to cool on the tray for 5 mins, then transfer to a cooling rack to cool completely.
- To make the icing, break the chocolate into a heatproof bowl and set it over a pan of just simmering water. Slowly melt the chocolate, stirring occasionally. Spoon the melted chocolate into a disposable piping bag and snip off the very tip. Pipe the chocolate over in a zig-zag across each biscuit tree like tinsel. Carefully stick silver pearls into the icing on each tree like baubles. Leave to set for at least 1 hr.
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