Name: Gingerbread Mobile
Yield: Makes 15 or 20 birds; 7 birds make 1 mobile
Ingredients: 1 cardboard ring from a roll of sticky tape; 5 green buttons with slots or large holes; reel of 5 mm-wide orange ribbon; plain flour, to dust; ½ × recipe Gingerbread Biscuits dough; dove cutter (or template); swallow cutter (or template); reel of 15 mm-wide orange ribbon; 30 g bag white royal icing; 14 green dragees; 20 cm embroidery hoop

Preparation info

Makes
15 or 20
birds

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Bake and Decorate

By Fiona Cairns

Published 2011

About

A magical addition to any child’s room, or anywhere for that matter. The gingerbreads could be any shape: snowflakes or stars at Christmas, butterflies, hearts, flowers or animals. Use whatever cutters you have, or draw a template.

Ingredients

½ × recipe Gingerbread Biscuits dough

Vegetarian
Christmas
Cookies
Baking

Method

Preheat the oven to 180°C/fan 170°C/350°F/gas mark 4. Line a baking sheet with baking parchment. Chill the dough, then roll it out to about 4mm thick on a lightly floured surface. Cut out the birds and pierce a hole in each with a skewer to thread through the ribbon late

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