Square Christmas cookies

Christmas
Animals
Decorating with Kids

Keep it cheerfully simple with these Christmas cookies!

Brought to you by Marie McGrath from Marie's Bakehouse

There's a dusting of Christmas cheer beginning to appear in the air, and we're here to spread the festive JOY even further with these super-cute Christmas cookies! Super-easy to bake - whether you attempt them with kids or without! - these cookies by Marie McGrath of Marie's Bakehouse are sure to be a hit.

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You will need

For the biscuits:

  • a batch of your favourite cookie dough

To decorate:

  • sugarpaste: white, yellow, brown and orange

Equipment:

  • 7.5 cm square cutter
  • paintbrush
  • cooled boiled water
  • knife
  • 2 small square cutters, different sizes (for Santa's belt)

Instructions

1
Bake a batch of your favourite cookie dough using the 7.5cm (3in) square cutter.

Snowman

1
Cut a 7.5cm (3in) square of white sugarpaste and use a paintbrush and some cooled boiled water to stick it to a cookie.
2
Roll a cone of orange sugarpaste and stick it to the middle of the square, then mark some lines across it with the blade of a knife. 
3
Roll 7 tiny balls of black and stick them on the paste, using 2 for eyes and 5 for a mouth.

Santa's tummy

1
Cut a 7.5cm (3in) square of red sugarpaste and stick it to a cookie.
2
Roll out the black sugarpaste and cut a 7.5cm (3in) long strip. Stick this in the middle of the cookie. Roll out the yellow sugarpaste and cut out a small square. Using the smallest square, cut out a shape in the middle of this for the belt buckle. 
3
Stick it in the middle of the black belt.

Penguin

1
Cut a 7.5cm (3in) square of black sugarpaste and stick this to a cookie. Roll out the white sugarpaste, then cut out a white heart. 
2
Using the 7.5cm (3in) square cutter, trim the sides and bottom of the heart so it sits neatly on top of the black square. Stick it to the cookie. 
3
Roll 2 small balls of black sugarpaste and stick these down for eyes.

Gingerbread man's face

1
Roll out the brown sugarpaste, then cut out a 7.5cm (3in) square. Stick this to a cookie. 
2
Roll 2 small balls of black for the eyes and stick them on, then roll a thin sausage of black sugarpaste and stick it down for the mouth. 
3
Roll a thin sausage of white sugarpaste and stick this in a wavy thin across the top of the cookie.

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