"Create a Treat" ornament cookie kit

One of the many present the Zebra received for Christmas was this biscuit decorating pack. The product is dated May 2016 so it won't keep till next year, so we decided to give it a go on our first baking Saturday of the year!

The pack is pretty basic, and although I don't know how much it cost to buy, we could have made it from scratch, in minutes, for pennies.

As soon as the Zebra saw the pack of brightly coloured sugar strands, she went into full blown tantrum until she was allowed to hold them. 

I cut the corner of one pack of icing and showed her how to squeeze it out onto the biscuit. However, it was so thick if just slowly gloobs out in big chunks.

I managed to smear a bit of the icing around and then opened the sprinkles. The whole pack got dumped over one biscuit. Then the feeding frenzy began. Once she had tasted the sugar it was too late, there was no stopping her.

Time to give up and clean up!

I managed to press two biscuits onto the scattered sprinkles and we will have them for dessert later. After a quick taste of the icing - I don't have high hopes!

Would I recommend this product for a toddler? No. Would I recommend for older children. No. 

This is the first ready-made pack we have used and I'm most disappointed.

Gingerbread Rudolph Reindeers

These biscuits look so cute and are really easy to make - they are just upside-down gingerbread men! 

We are still housebound with chicken pox so had to find a recipe that only included ingredients we already had - which was a struggle! This book had the closest we could find...

Ingredients:

125g butter 

85g brown sugar (we used light brown)

175ml golden syrup

375g plain flour

2tsp ginger (we used mixed spice)

1tsp bicarbonate of soda

******preheat oven to 190*******

Start by adding the sugar and butter into a bowl

Mix it well until it's smooth! We didn't have real butter and used spreadable so it didn't take long at all 

Add in the flour, spice, and bicarbonate of soda

Then get mummy to help pour in the syrup 

Mix everything together until it becomes a dough

It's safe to say the Zebra likes cookie dough!!

Put the mixture into the fridge for at least 30 minutes. I didn't have any cling film so used a ziplock bag

Roll the dough as thin as possible

Using a gingerbread-man cutter, make your biscuits

Pop into the oven for 8-10 minutes. It seems our biscuit were too thick and took 15 minutes to cook. The Zebra kept a good eye on them for me the whole time 

They also got a lot bigger while cooking than I expected!

Once they have cooled it's time to ice - the "legs" of the gingerbread man become the antlers! You can either ice the eyes, or use googley eyes for decoration. 

They certainly pass the Zebra taste test!