Annabel Karmel’s Reindeer Christmas Cookies Recipe

By cheryl, December 7, 2015

There’s no better Christmas cookie than one that involves Curly Wurly’s, M&Ms, cherries AND golden syrup so grab the little ones and get baking these tasty Annabel Karmel Reindeer Cookies!

Ingredients

• 350g plain flour
• 2tsp ground ginger
• 1tsp cinnamon
• ½tsp mixed spice
• ¼tsp salt
• 1tsp bicarbonate of soda
• ½tsp baking powder
• 175g butter
• 150g light brown sugar
• 4tbsp golden syrup

For the decoration

• Curly Wurly chocolate bars
• Glacé cherries
• M&M’s
• Black writing icing pens

Method

1. Preheat the oven to 180°C (160˚C fan). Measure the flour, spices, salt, bicarbonate of soda and baking powder into a bowl.
2. Melt the butter, sugar and syrup in a pan. Pour into the dry ingredients and mix. Lightly knead together to make a dough.
3. Form the dough into 10 balls. Pinch out one end of the balls to form a point, then flatten with your hand. Place on a baking sheet and bake for 12 to 15 minutes until the cookies are lightly golden but still slightly soft.
4. Using a skewer, make a slit on either side of the cookie heads for the antlers to slot in then leave to cool for a few minutes. Decorate each cookie with lengths of Curly Wurly for the antlers and halved glacé cherries for the nose. Take two M&M’s of the same colour for the eyes and dot with black icing for the pupils.

 

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