CHRISTMAS JUMPER BISCUITS

250g butter, softened
150g golden caster sugar
2 tsp vanilla extract
1 egg yolk
300g plain flour

Icing
300g icing sugar
2 tbsp water

Decoration
Sugar snowflakes
Red ready to roll icing
Red, green & white icing pens
Green food colouring

1. Cream the butter and sugar together in a bowl until fluffy. Add the vanilla and egg yolk. Whisk, then add the plain flour. Beat until the mixture comes together. Knead into a dough and chill for 30 minutes.

2. Line two baking sheets with baking parchment. Roll out the dough on a floured work surface, cut out Christmas jumper shapes using a cookie cutter and arrange on the baking sheets. Preheat the oven to 180 C and bake the cookies for about 12 minutes.

3. To make the icing. Mix the icing sugar and water together to make a smooth paste. Divide into 2 bowls. Leave one bowl as it is for your white icing and in the other add drops of green food colouring to create your desired shade of Christmas jumper green.

Decoration

Green Christmas Jumpers
1. Spoon the green icing into a small icing bag fitted with a small nozzle.
2. Carefully pipe the icing onto the biscuits, following the edge of the jumper shape
3. Using the red & white icing pens draw on festive patterns!

White Christmas Jumpers
1. Spoon the white icing into a small icing bag fitted with a small nozzle.
2. Carefully pipe the icing onto the biscuits, following the edge of the jumper shape
3. Using the green & red icing pens draw on festive patterns!

Red Christmas Jumpers
1. Roll out red ready to roll icing and cut out Christmas jumper shapes using a cookie cutter. Place on top of the biscuit.
2. Stick on sugar snowflakes