Recipes
Spiced snowmen biscuits
Decorate these cute biscuits with sweets – or use writing icing on them instead.
Decorate these cute biscuits with sweets – or use writing icing on them instead.
(4 votes)
Cook: 1 Hour
Serves: 10
Price: 43p per serving
Nutritional Information
Each 121g serving contains
Energy
2052kj
490kcal
2052kj
490kcal
24%
Fat
17.8g
17.8g
Med
25%
25%
Saturates
10.6g
10.6g
Med
53%
53%
Sugars
60.9g
60.9g
High
68%
68%
Salt
0.4g
0.4g
Med
7%
7%
of your reference intake.
Typical energy values per 100g:
1696kj/405kcal
Typical energy values per 100g:
1696kj/405kcal
Ingredients
225g plain flour
1 level tsp ground cinnamon
1 level tsp ground ginger
150g butter, softened, plus 25g for the icing
100g caster sugar
2 large egg yolks
50g icing sugar, plus extra for rolling
500g Asda Chosen by you Ready to Roll White Icing
Chocolate chips, to decorate
Jelly beans, to decorate
Strawberry laces, to decorate
Smarties, to decorate
Method
1
Pre-heat the oven to 180C/160C Fan/Gas 4. Line 2 baking trays with baking paper. In a bowl, sift together the flour with the cinnamon, ginger and a pinch of salt.
2
In another bowl, beat 150g of the butter and the caster sugar together until creamy. Beat in the egg yolks. Add the flour mixture and stir until it forms large clumps.
3
Gather the dough together with your hands and knead lightly – just enough to make a stiff dough.
4
Pat to make a flat cake. Wrap in cling film and chill for 15 minutes.
5
Roll out the dough between 2 sheets of cling film to a thickness of 5mm. Remove the cling film and use a gingerbread man cutter to cut out snowmen shapes. Put on the baking trays, leaving a gap between each one.
6
Roll out any leftover dough and cut out more biscuits.
7
Bake the biscuits in the oven for 12 minutes. Leave on the trays to cool for 10 minutes, then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
8
On a surface dusted with icing sugar, roll out the icing to the thickness of a pound coin. Cut out snowmen shapes.
9
Beat the rest of the butter with the icing sugar and spread on the biscuits, reserving a little for sticking on the sweets. Lay the biscuits, buttercream side down, on top of the icing snowmen, then turn over, so that the icing is on top.
10
Decorate with sweets, sticking them in place with buttercream. We used chocolate chips for eyes, a jelly bean for a nose, strawberry laces for scarves and Smarties for buttons.