Snowman biscuits

These festive treats are easy for little hands to help decorate. You can bake and freeze the biscuits ahead, then bring them out for a winter’s day decorating activity.

Makes 20 Prep 1 hr plus at least 2 hrs chilling and setting Cook 14 mins per batch un-iced only

125g butter, softened

125g golden caster sugar

1 egg, beaten

1 tsp vanilla extract

250g plain flour, plus extra for dusting FOR THE DECORATION

400g white fondant icing icing sugar, for dusting tube white writing icing, for sticking 500g pack red, green, yellow, black and

blue ready-to-roll fondant icing tube black writing icing

1 Heat the oven to 190C/170C fan/gas 5. Cream the butter and sugar until pale and fluffy, then beat in the egg and vanilla. Stir in the flour and mix to a fairly soft dough. Tip onto a lightly floured surface and knead gently. Cover and chill for at least 2 hrs.

2 On a lightly floured surface, roll out the dough to a thickness of around 5mm. Use a cookie cutter or water glass to cut out 7cm rounds. Re-roll the trimmings and repeat.

3 Transfer the biscuits to two lined baking trays and bake for 8-14 mins until the edges turn lightly golden in colour. Leave to cool.

4 To decorate: roll out the white fondant on a surface dusted with icing sugar. Stamp out 7cm circles, then use the white writing icing to stick a fondant round on each biscuit. To make hats, roll out the red, blue, green and yellow icings (or knead some red and yellow icing together to make orange, then roll out). Stamp out 7cm circles of icing and cut in half and stick on with white icing. Cut strips of icing and make some markings to look like the brim of a hat and stick on, mixing and matching the colours. Repeat with all the biscuits. Decorate the hats with icing blobs for bobbles and stripes and make pom poms from icing balls. Make noses and eyes from balls of orange and black icing. Use black writing icing to pipe on smiles. Leave to set. Keeps for up to five days in an airtight container.

PER BISCUIT 157 kcals, fat 6g, saturates 3g, carbs 24g, sugars 15g, fibre 1g, protein 2g, salt 0.1g