Ingredients (makes about 30-40 depending on the size of your cutter)
90g soft unsalted butter
180g caster sugar
1 large egg
1 tsp ground ginger (or vanilla extract - my children prefer the vanilla version
)200g plain flour plus extra for sprinkling
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp fine salt
edible gold dust/glitter ( you can buy this on ebay for around £2 inc postage)
Instructions
1) Preheat the oven to 180C/Gas 4 and line a baking sheet (or 2) with baking parchment.
2) Cream the butter and sugar together until whipped soft and pale, then beat in the egg, followed by the gigner (or vanilla), flour, baking powder and salt and contune mixing until it all comes together to form a soft dough.
3) Form into 2 discs , wrap each one in cling film and let it rest in the fridge for 20-30 minutes.
4)Sprinkle a suitable surface with flour, place a disc of dough on it and sprinkle a little more flour on top. Then roll it out to a thickness of about 5mm.
5) Cut into shapes, dipping the cutter into flour as you go, and place the biscuits a little apart on the prepared baking sheets. Mix the scraps of the first disc with the second and continue to roll out and cut shapes until you've used up all the dough.
6) Bake in the oven for 8-12 minutes, (this depends on their shape, how many sheets are in the oven at the same time and whether they are on the lower or upper shelf, although you can swap them around after 5 minutes). When they are ready, they should be tinged pale gold around the edges but still be softish in the middle that will harden on cooling.
7) Take the sheets out of the oven, remove the cookies with a flexible spatula onto a wire rack to cool.
When cooled, use a small (unused) paintbrush or eyeshadow brush to paint the glitter onto the biscuits.
