Trees

Name: Trees
Prep time: 25 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 40 min
Ingredients: 50 g butter, cut into cubes; 115 g light muscovado sugar; 1 egg; 150 g cake flour; 1/2 tsp baking soda; 1 lemon zest, finely grated; 50 g icing sugar; 2 tsp lemon juice; 10 chocolate sticks; to taste colorful candy sprinkles

Lemon cookies decorated with chocolate tree trunks and colorful fruit or candy sprinkles.

40 min

Easy

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Ingredients

butter, cut into cubes 50 g

light muscovado sugar 115 g

egg 1

cake flour 150 g

baking soda 1/2 tsp

lemon zest, finely grated 1

icing sugar 50 g

lemon juice 2 tsp

chocolate sticks 10

colorful candy sprinkles to taste

Instructions

Step 1

Preheat the oven to 180°C (gas mark 6). Grease 2 baking trays.

Step 2

Cream the butter and sugar in a bowl. Add the egg. Add the flour, baking soda, and lemon zest. Mix until a smooth dough forms.

Step 3

Place 5 large spoonfuls of dough on the baking trays, spaced apart. Bake for 15 minutes until the cookies puff up. Let sit on the trays for 5 minutes to firm up, then transfer to a cooling rack to cool.

Step 4

Decoration: Stir the lemon juice into the icing sugar to make a thick mixture. Use a little of the mixture to stick one end of a chocolate stick onto each cookie.