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Spiced Christmas tree butter shortbread recipe

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For an easy Christmas baking idea, try this spiced Christmas tree butter shortbread. Classic buttery shortbread is given a festive makeover with fragrant spices and a drizzle of white chocolate for a simple Christmassy sweet treat or edible gift idea. See method

Makes 12-14
20 mins to prepare and 20 mins to cook
217 calories / serving
Vegetarian

Ingredients

100g caster sugar
150g unsalted butter, at room temperature
¼ tsp cinnamon
¼ tsp mixed spice
¼ tsp ground cardamom or 2 pods, seeds removed and finely chopped
¼ tsp ground nutmeg
250g plain flour

For the icing

100g white chocolate
edible silver pearls, to decorate

If you don't have any pears, try using apples

Each serving contains

Energy
905kj
217kcal 11%
Fat
12g 17%
Saturates
7g 37%
Sugars
12g 13%
Salt
0g 0%

of the reference intake
Carbohydrate 24.7g Protein 2.4g Fibre 0.8g

Method

Put the sugar, butter and spices into a large mixing bowl and use a wooden spoon to beat them together to cream the butter and create a smooth mixture. Add the flour and mix together. Use your hands to bring together into a dough and gently knead until smooth.

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Roll the dough out on a lightly floured surface to just under 1cm thick. Use a 5cm Christmas tree cookie cutter to stamp out biscuits, re-rolling the offcuts until you have 12.
Space out on 2 baking trays lined with nonstick baking paper and chill for 40 mins. Preheat the oven to gas 6, 200°C, fan 180°C.
Bake for 15-18 mins until pale golden and they smell like biscuits. Leave to cool on the tray for 5 mins, then transfer to a cooling rack to cool completely.
To make the icing, break the chocolate into a heatproof bowl and set it over a pan of just simmering water. Slowly melt the chocolate, stirring occasionally. Spoon the melted chocolate into a disposable piping bag and snip off the very tip. Pipe the chocolate over in a zig-zag across each biscuit tree like tinsel. Carefully stick silver pearls into the icing on each tree like baubles. Leave to set for at least 1 hr.