Christmas Ginger Stars Nan Frans Recipe

Ingredients:

To Decorate :

Tube ready-made white icing (available in the baking sections of most supermarkets)
Edible silver balls (optional)
Silver ribbon

Equipment:

Method:

Preheat the oven to 180C/350F/Gas 4.
For the biscuits, mix the butter and sugar together in a bowl using an electric whisk until pale and fluffy.
Ask an adult to help you do this
Add the golden syrup, flour, ground ginger and bicarbonate of soda and beat together to form dough,wrap the dough in cling film and chill in the fridge for at least 30 minutes.
Roll the dough out on a floured work surface to about 0.5cm. Cut into star shapes using cookie cutters. re-roll the trimmings and continue cutting out stars until all the dough is used up.
Place the stars onto baking sheets lined with baking paper. Make a hole in each star near the top using the end of a straw.
Put them on a tray and into the oven and bake for about eight minutes. Remove from the oven and allow to cool for a few minutes on the tray Next transfer to a wire rack to cool completely. Ask an adult for help whilst using the oven.
To decorate the biscuits, ice the biscuits using a tube of white icing and top with some edible silver balls, if you like! Thread a silver ribbon through the holes in the tops of the biscuits and tie in a loop so that you can hang them on the tree.