Chocolate coated biscuits
150g Butter
120g Caster Sugar
1 egg
300g Self Raising Flour
1tsp Cinnamon
1tsp Ginger
400g Milk chocolate
- Preheat oven to gas mark 6
- Beat the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy
- Beat in the eggs
- Gradually sift in the flour and spices to form a dough
- Roll out dough with a rolling pin on a floured surface to roughly 3mm thick
- Use biscuit cutters to cut whatever shapes you want your biscuits
- Bake for 20 mins
- Put biscuits on a cooling rack to completely cool down
- Melt the chocolate in a heatproof bowl over a pan of boiling water
- Carefully spoon the melted chocolate over the biscuits
- Place the biscuits on a sheet of grease proof paper so that once their dry its easier to peel off
Snowflake Cupcakes
110g Butter
110g Caster Sugar
2 eggs
110g Self Raising Flour
1tsp Baking Powder
Ready to roll white icing
3tbs Icing sugar
- Preheat oven to gas mark 3
- Mix sugar and butter together until light and fluffy
- Beat eggs
- Pour the eggs into the sugar and butter mixture beating well
- Sift in the flour and baking powder carefully folding it into the mixture
- Spoon the mixture into the cake cases
- Bake for 20 Minutes until golden
- Put cupcakes on cool rack to completely cool down
- Mix the icing sugar with a small amount of water until it smooth and drips of a spoon
- Roll out the white icing to 2mm thick
- Use the snowflake icing cutter to cut the white icing
- Cover the cupcakes with the icing mixture and top with the snowflake piece of icing
