Ok, they aren’t part of an Aussie Christmas, but snowflakes do have a traditional Xmas feel and these ones are quite yummy 🙂
To make 60 snowflakes…
A white Christmas in Canada has snowflakes – Aussies need edible snowflakes!
2 cup icing sugar
5.5 cups plain flour
250 g butter
2 eggs
2.5 tsp vanilla essence
get eggs to room temperature.
Cube butter and put back in fridge
mix flour and 1.5 cup sugar together then add butter.
Blend until you get a mixture looking like fine breadcrumbs.
Mix in eggs and vanilla essence until a dough forms.
Knead dough until lower surface is smooth.
Push dough into two circles about 20 cm across and wrap in grease-proof paper. Put in fridge for an hour or so – should be firm to touch.
roll out dough until about 5mm thick – sticks less if you put it between sheets of baking paper.
If you can find a snowflake cutter, now is when to use it! If not, use a star cutter and a knife to adjust it or try a Christmas tree cutter (instead of snowflakes or join two together for a snowflake-ish look).
Put trays of biscuits into fridge for 30 minutes.
Pre-heat over to 180 Celsius and prepare baking trays (grease or use baking paper).
bake for about 10 minutes
cool completely on trays then dust with icing sugar to enhance the snow feeling.
Thanks for sharing that recipe Kylie – they sound like fun to make and yummy to eat 🙂 A definite possibility to leave out for Santa on Christmas Eve – hmm, would he appreciate a reminder of snow or prefer to enjoy the Australian warmth do you think? Maybe we’ll just make them to eat while reading our Santa letters!
Thanks so much for sharing this! I’m one of those people who likes to celebrate Christmas in July as well as in September and I will definitely be breaking out this recipe to try. It sounds sweet and delicious- I’ll let you know how it turns out 🙂
July and September? As well as December – you do get in the Christmas spirit, don’t you? 🙂 Good to hear!
Let us know how those snowflakes go – send a photo, too, if you are happpy to share it.
Yummy! I making these over the Labor Day holiday for.a trail run. The whole family will be here, they sound amazing and I hope they are, or someone will be pelted with snowflakes.
Hohohohoho 🙂 At least these snowflakes won’t be cold if they get down your collar…