Stained Glass Tree Decorations

Name: Stained Glass Tree Decorations
Yield: Makes about 20
Ingredients: 5 m narrow ribbon; 13 cm snowflake cutter; 5 cm snowflake cutter; 1 × Gingerbread Biscuits dough; 3.5 cm angel cutter; 10 cm angel cutter; 4 cm tree cutter; 12 cm tree cutter; 3.5 cm heart cutter; 9 cm heart cutter; plain flour, to dust; 15-20 coloured boiled sweets

Preparation info

Makes about
20

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Bake and Decorate

By Fiona Cairns

Published 2011

About

These look stunning on a Christmas tree; the coloured ‘glass’ glows when lit by lights or candles. The biscuits only last a few days on the tree, so eat them before they soften. Use whatever seasonal cutters you have, though you will need 2 sizes of each shape.

Ingredients

1 × Gingerbread Biscuits dough

Vegetarian
Christmas
Baking
Cookies

Method

Preheat the oven to 180°C/fan 170°C/350°F/gas mark 4. Crush the boiled sweets (still in their wrappers) by bashing with a rolling pin. First placing all the sweets of the same colour in a polythene bag together means they won’t shoot all over the kitchen! Line a couple o