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Method

  • step 1

    Put flour, butter, mixed spice, ginger, sugar, egg and honey in a food processor. Whizz to a smooth dough.

  • step 2

    Roll out on a lightly flour-dusted surface to £1 coin thickness, then stamp out shapes. Bake on trays at 200C/180C fan/ gas 6 for 10-12 mins until crisp and golden brown.

  • step 3

    After baking, brush the wings with a little runny icing, then dip into granulated or caster sugar to coat. Add stripes with small writing icing pens - you can buy packs in the supermarket with both black and yellow tubes.

RECIPE TIPS
BEE-SHAPED CUTTERS

Buy bee-shaped cutters from cakescookiesandcraftsshop.co.uk or amazon.co.uk.

Recipe from Good Food magazine, October 2013

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Porri

Nice quick and easy recipe. I made these to go with ice-cream and they were delicious. I didn't bother icing them but they would also make a great Christmas biscuit for kids to make.

jasminebro

Great quick recipe. Not sure why it says prep 1 hour - I nearly didn't bother with the recipe because of this - but luckily read on and was able to use this recipe to quickly prepare simple Christmas biscuits with the children.

mcmillangf

These take 10 minutes to prepare and then my daughter has a great time stamping out biscuits. They keep very well and are nice topped with lemon icing and sugar sprinkles. I make mine with golden syrup instead of honey as that is what I have in the cupboard.

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