Ideas for icing please!

[2jamsandwiches]

I'm going to make some biscuit Christmas trees like these as presents/decorations/just because I think they look fun and I don't already have quite enough to do...

BUT I find that icing biscuits with the kind of icing recommended there makes them too sweet and sickly.

Any bright ideas about how I could decorate them? Are there any less sweet icings that actually set solid? I'm not going to use sugar substitute stuff...

One thing I thought of was to just 'glue' them with a blob of icing up the middle (like a trunk) and then to sprinkle with ideally green icing sugar - but how do I dye icing sugar?!?

Help, cake and biscuit wizards!

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I would use blobs to glue them as you suggest but would sprinkle with plain white icing sugar to look like snow

OH, how pretty are they?? They're lovely and very simple!

Not sure what icing to use, but would desicated coconut be an option? That's easy to dye. Just chuck it in a bowl and mix a few drops of green food colouring in.

OK, I've read the OP again, and that's not what you were asking at all!

Dunno, but I'll give it some thought!

glue them together with seedless raspberry jam.

Then trickle a softish mix of white icing from the top down to look like snow

Not sure about colouring icing sugar.

Small splodges of royal icing would stick it together well, so that bit is not an issue.

I like Jasper's trickled snow idea - then you could sprinkle snowflake lustre over for glittery snow?

thanks! they are pretty, aren't they. what is snowflake lustre?
think will use icing not jam to stick as i'd like them to stay glued for a bit.
plain icing sugar also sounds much wiser than coloured...

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