Cook the Book: Edible Christmas Tree Decorations

Name: Cook the Book: Edible Christmas Tree Decorations
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 35
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 1 teaspoon baking powder; 1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper; 8 Tbsps stick soft butter; 1 teaspoon cinnamon; 473 milliliters confectioners sugar; 118 milliliters packed dark brown sugar; 2 larges eggs beaten with 1/4 cup runny honey; 473 milliliters all-purpose flour, plus more for dusting; 0 teaspoons ground cloves; 2 Tbsps meringue powder; 1 pinch Pinch of salt; 35 servings Edible gold or silver sprinkles

You can never have too many hor d'oeuvre recipes, so give Cook the Book: Edible Christmas Tree Decorations a try. This recipe makes 35 servings with 135 calories, 1g of protein, and 3g of fat each. This recipe covers 2% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. Head to the store and pick up baking powder, flour, salt, and a few other things to make it today. It will be a hit at your Christmas event. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes about 45 minutes.

Instructions

Combine the flour, salt, baking powder, cinnamon, cloves and pepper in a food processor and, with the motor on, add the butter and sugar, then, slowly, the beaten eggs and honey, through the feed tube, though don't use all of this liquid if the pastry has come together before it's used up.

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Baking Powder

Cinnamon

Butter

Clove

Pepper

All Purpose Flour

Honey

Sugar

Egg

Salt

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Food Processor

Form two fat discs and put one, covered in plastic wrap or in a resealable bag, in the refrigerator while you get started on the other.

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Wrap

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Plastic Wrap

Preheat the oven to 350°F and line two cookie sheets with parchment paper. Then dust a work surface with flour, roll out the disc, also floured, to about 1/4 inch, and cut out your Christmas decorations with cutters of your choice, which could include fir-tree shapes, angels, stars, snowflakes, and so on.

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All Purpose Flour

Roll

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Baking Paper

Baking Sheet

Oven

Re-roll and cut out some more, setting aside the dough scraps from thus first disc, well covered, while you get on with rolling out the second. When you've got both sets of leftover clumps of dough, roll out and cut out again, and keep doing so till all the dough's used up.

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Dough

Roll

Now take a small piping nozzle and use the pointy end to cut out a hole just below the top of each cookie (through which the ribbon can be later threaded).

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Arrange the pastry shapes on the lined cookie sheets and bake for about 20 minutes: it's hard to see when they're baked, but you can feel; if the underside is no longer doughy, they're ready.

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Baking Sheet

Oven

Transfer to a wire rack and leave to cool.

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Wire Rack

Mix together the confectioners' sugar with the meringue powder and 3 tablespoons water, beating it until it's thick enough to be able to cover the cookies with a just-dripping blanket of white.

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Powdered Sugar

Water

Carefully ice the cold decorations, using a teaspoon (the tip for dripping, the back for smoothing), and scatter sparkles for sprinkles as you like. When the icing is set, thread the ribbon through the holes and hang on your tree.

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Sprinkles