Biscuits to hang on the tree

[SomebodySaveMe]

Can anybody help me out with a recipe please? Im ill and need something to occupy DD and DS whilst I drink a years supply of lemsip.

175g soft unsalted butter
200g soft brown sugar
2 eggs
1/4 teaspoon almond extract
350g plain flour
50g ground almonds
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt

preheat oven to 180 degrees C/gas mark 4

1.cream together butter and sugar.
2.beat in eggs and almond extract

1. combine flour, baking powder salt and ground almonds. add to butter and egg mixture, mnixing gently but thoroughly
2. if misture too sticky to roll out, add more flour (sparingly)
3. halve the dough, cut into fat discs and put in fridge to rest for 1/2 hr

6.roll out the fat discs to a thickness of 1/2 cm

1. cut using biscuit cutters, put on greased tray
2. bake for 8-12 mins until lightly golden 'round the edges but still quite pale
3. cool on a rack

These st firm so you could make a hole before baking for ribbon to hang them. Don't think they'll last till Christmas though. How about they make Fimo stuff for the tree instead?

If you cut out a shape in the middle of the above biscuits before baking, crush some brightly coloured boiled sweets and fill in the hole you make, you will have stained glass biscuits ;)

Does that actually work then? I always wanted to try but feared a giant, sticky, burned mess would result. Tips, please?

Make sure you use baking parchment and let the biscuits go cold before you peel them off. It does work - I do them every year with key stage 3!!!!

I did stained glass biscuits with my two last year and they loved it. Definitely need baking parchment though...

Oddly, hardest thing was finding the boiled sweets. Ended up in the corner shop.