Friday 20 January 2012

God Rest Ye Merry Biscuit

I'm just gonna say it: I made the nativity out of biscuit. On Christmas Eve I sat for several hours at my aunt's kitchen table (literally probably a four hour job) and make the nativity out of biscuit. The previous Christmas, my cousin and I found a nativity cookie cutter set in Lakeland for just a few quid but never then did I dream I would be the one to secure my place in heaven by making it.

I used the biscuit recipe available in a post below but removed the chocolate in favour of a large teaspoon of cinnamon. If you don't have the cookie cutter set, which I can only imagine to be the case, then God speed young baker. If you do, then my top tip is to use the cutters to cut the outlines and bits of the figures. No point in a recipe for this set, it's really just a blog post to pat myself on the back.

What a thing of ethereal and, sadly, ephemeral beauty.

I made two shepherds (one is hiding behind the barn with the other sheep), two sheep, three kings, three camels, Mary, Joseph, Baby J and a donkey. Plus star and barn:

My brother bit this off on Boxing Day...

I hand mixed the icing, with a little assistance from various family members, as it allowed to do a lot more colours without having to buy all the different colours. The kings were probably the most fun to do:

The front one melted a little it seems... I ate him and his camel whilst stuck on a train on the 27th. So this nativity basically saved my life.

I hope you all had a merry and biscuit-filled Christmas and New Year,

A x