Christmas Wreath Cookies

Christmas wreath biscuits topped with white chocolate, cranberries and pistachio nuts. Served on a white plate with baubles in the background

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Full of spices and decorated with cranberries, white chocolate & pistachios these Christmas Wreath cookies are perfectly beautiful & super easy. Go bake.

Prep Time30 mins

Cook Time25 mins

Total Time55 mins

Course: Baking

Cuisine: Worldwide

Servings:

Calories: 213kcal

Author: Jane Saunders

Ingredients

75 g/ ½ cup Rice flour
200 g/ 11/2 cups Plain (all purpose flour)
225 g/ 1 cup Unsalted butter - cubed
40 g/ ⅓ cup Icing (confectioner) sugar
45 g/ ¼ cup Vanilla caster sugar
1 teaspoon Mixed spice
Finely grated zest of ½ an orange
Finely grated zest of ½ a lemon

Toppings

100 g/ ¾ cup White chocolate – chopped & melted
40 g/ ¼ cup Pistachio nuts – finely chopped
40 g/ ¼ cup Dried cranberries – chopped small

Instructions

Put the flours, sugars, spice, citrus zests and butter into a bowl and rub together using your fingertips until the mixture first resembles breadcrumbs and then starts to bind together. Knead briefly and gently until the mixture forms a smooth biscuit dough
Roll out on a lightly floured work-surface to approximately ½ cm (¼ inch) thick. Press out circles of the dough using a pastry cutter with a diameter around 7cm (2 ½ inches). R-roll the dough once and cut out any extra biscuits that you can
Using a much smaller cutter* of around 2cm (¾ inch) in diameter, cut out the middle of the biscuits, then lay the biscuits on baking sheets and chill for 30 minutes before baking. Meanwhile preheat the oven to 140°C/ 275°F/ GM 1
Bake the biscuits for 25-30 minutes until very lightly golden - you are not looking for these biscuits to brown significantly – they are cooked long and low to get a nice crunch without a suntan
Once baked, allow to cool for a couple of minutes on the baking sheet then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely
Drizzle the melted white chocolate over the cooled biscuits, zig-zagging as you go. Finally, sprinkle the cranberries and nuts over the top. Once set, you may need to carefully poke any chocolate/ cranberries & nuts through the middle to reveal the hole

Notes

I know that you can get cutters designed to cut the middle out as well as the outer edge. Maybe I need to put one on my Christmas wish list, as I don’t have one yet.

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