Mince pies, Xmas logs, Christmas truffles… Wherever you flip at this tinsel-topped time of 12 months, there’s a tempting deal with to check your slimming motivation!
At Slimming World, you don’t need to say ho-ho-no to festive meals to get a glittery outcome on the scales. We’ve obtained a set of very merry makes and bakes on the members-only website and app, together with these scrumptious gingerbread biscuits.
Whether or not you form them into stars, create a platter of individuals or flip them the wrong way up to make reindeer, these completely spiced bites are sure to be a success along with your family and friends – and so they’re simply 1 Swip per Christmassy crunch.
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Gingerbread biscuits recipe
makes 60
1 Swip per biscuit
prepared in 45 minutes
vegetarian
What you want:
50g unsalted butter
2 degree tbsp golden syrup
2 degree tbsp mild tender brown sugar
225g self-raising flour
1 tbsp floor ginger
1 tsp floor cinnamon
¼ tsp floor cloves
2 degree tsp sweetener granules
3 degree tbsp skimmed milk
1 degree tsp icing sugar, for dusting
What you do:
1. Preheat your oven to 190°C/fan 170°C/gasoline 5 and canopy 2 giant baking trays with non-stick baking paper. Soften the butter and golden syrup in a small non-stick pan over a low warmth, then take away from the warmth, stir within the sugar and put aside.
2. Sift the flour, spices and ¼ tsp salt right into a bowl, then stir within the sweetener. Add the melted butter and milk and stir right into a dough. Knead till easy, then halve the dough with a knife.
3. Roll out 1 piece of dough between 2 giant sheets of cling movie to a thickness of about 3-4mm. Use a 5cm x 5cm (or 6cm x 4cm) cutter to chop out as many biscuits as you possibly can. Frivolously re-knead and roll out the trimmings repeatedly, till all of the dough is used up. Repeat with the second piece of dough till you might have about 60 biscuits.
4. Prepare the biscuits on the baking trays and bake on the center shelf of the oven for about 7½ minutes or till they’re beginning to brown however are nonetheless barely tender to the contact. Go away to chill, then mud with icing sugar and retailer in an hermetic container.
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