Annabel Karmel's reindeer cookies
- Preparation and cooking time
- Prep:
- Cook:
- plus decorating time
- Easy
- Makes 10 cookies
- 350g plain flour
- 2 tsp ground ginger
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- ½ tsp mixed spice
- ¼ tsp salt
- 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
- ½ tsp baking powder
- 175g butter
- 150g soft light brown sugar
- 4 tbsp golden syrup
For the decoration
- Curly Wurlys
- glacé cherries
- M & Ms
- black writing icing pen
Method
step 1
Preheat the oven to 180°C/Fan 160°C/350°F/Gas mark 4. Measure the flour, spices, salt, bicarbonate of soda and baking powder into a bowl
step 2
Melt the butter, sugar and syrup in a pan. Pour this into the dry ingredients and mix. Lightly knead together to make a dough
step 3
Form the dough into 10 balls. Pinch out one end of each ball to form a point, then flatten it with your hand to make a head shape
step 4
Place the cookies on a baking sheet and bake for 12 to 15 minutes until the cookies are lightly golden but still slightly soft
step 5
Using a skewer, make a slit on either side of the cookie heads for slotting in the antlers, then leave to cool for a few minutes
step 6
Decorate each cookie with lengths of Curly Wurly for the antlers and halved glacé cherries for the nose. Take 2 M&Ms of the same colour for the eyes and dot each with black icing for the pupils