Edible Votives

Name: Edible Votives
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 3
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 2 recipe Royal Icing; 473 milliliters sugar; 1 recipe Gingerbread Snowflake Cookie dough; 118 milliliters water; 3 candles, assorted heights; 1 sheet poster board or cardboard

Edible Votives might be just the side dish you are searching for. This recipe serves 3. Watching your figure? This dairy free recipe has 520 calories, 0g of protein, and 0g of fat per serving. This recipe covers 0% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. Head to the store and pick up water, recipe royal icing, recipe gingerbread snowflake cookie dough, and a few other things to make it today. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes around 45 minutes.

Instructions

Cut 1 (9X5-inch) patter, 1 (6- x 3 1/2-inch) pattern, and 1 (3- x 3 1/2- inch) pattern from poster board or cardboard.

Roll gingerbread dough to 1/4 inch thickness on a lightly floured surface; cut 4 (9- x 5-inch) rectangles using pattern.

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Dough

Roll

Transfer rectangles to parchment paper or lightly greased aluminum foil-lined baking sheets.

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Aluminum Foil

Baking Sheet

Cut designs from rectangles with desired shapes of small cutters and remove leaving a 1/2 inch border around edges. Reserve dough scraps.

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Dough

Reroll dough scraps to 1/4 inch thickness, and cut 4 (6- x 3 1/2 inch) rectangles using pattern. Repeat transferring and cutting procedure as directed.

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Dough

Reroll dough scraps to 1/4 inch thickness, and cut 4 (3- x 3 1/2-inch) rectangles using pattern. Repeat transferring and cutting procedure as directed.

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Dough

Cook sugar and 1/2 cup water in a medium saucepan over medium-high heat, stirring until sugar dissolves. Cook, without stirring, 10 to 12 minutes or until a candy thermometer reaches hard crack stage (30

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Sugar

Water

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and mixture is light golden brown.

Pour into a lightly greased 15- x 10-inch jellyroll pan; cool. Coarsely crush candy.

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Candy

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Frying Pan

Fill cutouts in gingerbread rectangles with candy, making sure candy touches cookies round edges.

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Candy

Bake at 350 for 15 to 20 minutes or until sugar melts and cookies are golden. Cool in pans on wire racks.

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Sugar

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Pipe rectangle edges, and fit corners together, holding sides of large votive in place for 5 to 10 minutes or until dry enough to adhere. Repeat procedure with remaining rectangles, making medium and small votives.

Spoon icing into a pastry bag fitted with a star tip; pipe edges of votives.

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Icing