Sally Laker 
Vanilla Star Biscuits – A lovely soft baked biscuit covered in fondant. Great for teacher’s thank you gifts or stocking fillers or for enjoying at home with your family.
A great festive treat that the children will love to help make and of course eat ….
Equipment:
2 baking trays covered in baking paper
1 star cookie cutter
Rolling pin
Ingredients:
12oz Plain Flour
1tsp Baking Powder
A tiny pinch of salt
4 oz Light Brown Sugar
4 oz Butter
1 egg
1.5 -2 tbsp Golden Syrup
A few drops of Vanilla Essence
For The Topping:
250g White Fondant Icing
Edible sparkles or edible glitter spray
Edible Silver Balls
1 tbsp Apricot Jam
Icing sugar to roll out and to decorate
Method:
Pre heat your oven to 160 Degrees
Put flour, baking powder, caster sugar,salt and butter in your mixing bowl and gently rub together with your fingertips so that the mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs
Add the egg, golden syrup and vanilla essence and mix together with a fork
With your hands gently knead together to make a ball
Put the mixture in a freezer bag and place in the fridge for 25-30 minutes
Take out the cookie dough and sprinkle your surface with icing sugar
Roll out the dough quite thickly and cut out as many star shapes as you can with the mixture
Place on the baking trays lined with baking paper and place in the oven for 15-20 minutes
When cooked- take out of oven and place on a cooling rack and let your cookies cool completely
Use some icing sugar to roll out your white icing- using the same star shaped cookie cutter cut out enough stars to go on each of your biscuits
Brush the cookies with a little apricot jam and stick on the fondant stars
Brush a little water onto the spikes of the fondant stars and stick on a silver ball on each spike
Sprinkle a bit of edible little or spray onto the cookies
Enjoy with a glass of milk or something a little stronger
