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Nutrition: per serving

  • kcal160
  • fat8g
  • saturates5g
  • carbs23g
  • sugars10g
  • fibre1g
  • protein2g
  • salt0.14g
    low
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Method

  • step 1

    Heat oven to 180C/fan 160C/gas 4. Grease 2 large non-stick baking sheets with oil. Whizz the flour, ginger, zest and butter with 1⁄2 tsp salt to fine crumbs in a food processor. Pulse in the sugar and milk, then turn out and knead briefly on a floured surface until smooth. Wrap then chill for about 30 mins.

  • step 2

    Flour the work surface again, then roll out the dough to the thickness of a £1 coin. Use 7cm cutters to cut out shapes, then use 4cm cutters to cut out the middles. Re-roll leftover pieces. Make a hole in the top of each biscuit, then carefully lift onto the baking sheets.

  • step 3

    Crush the sweets in their wrappers with a rolling pin, then put the pieces into the middles of the biscuits – the sweets should be level with the top of the dough. Bake for 15-20 mins or until the biscuits are golden brown and the middles have melted.

  • step 4

    Leave to harden, then transfer to a rack to cool. Thread with ribbon, then dust with icing sugar. Will keep for a month, but best eaten within 3 days.

Recipe from Good Food magazine, December 2008

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A star rating of 3.6 out of 5.30 ratings

no1recipes

Terrible recipe. Followed recipe to the letter. Took biscuits out after 15 mins. They were overdone already and despite liberally oiling the baking tray the sweets were stuck fast. The biscuits didn’t taste good - ginger barely discernible. Complete waste of time.

EmilyBrady

You can’t just go around being so rude on the internet! I can’t believe that you did that , try leaving the biscuits to cool ON the baking tray for 30 mins if that doesn’t work then put it in the fridge or something . Figure something out!

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question

Can you use different types of sweets in one biscuit for a more colourful effect?

DizzyDoris

Definitely! This isn’t my recipe but I’ve made stained glass biscuits many times.

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Liv Watson

A star rating of 5 out of 5.

I make these every Christmas without fail. I put a whole sweet in the centre rather than a crushed one and it works well.

flauffy

A star rating of 4 out of 5.

So I've just made half the above quantity as a tester as I want to make them with a class of kids as a festive activity later this week. The biscuit is lovely and quick to cook. At home I had no plain boiled sweets, just a pack of fruity sherbets, which I don't recommend as the sherbets burned!! But…

brenwilson

Following other comments, I just used my usual vanilla biscuit recipe and also put a whole sweet in the centre. The sweet melted perfectly in the time the biscuit took to bake. Use a drinking straw to cut a hole for the hanging ribbon. I made star shapes but just cut a circle in the centre with a…

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