Gingerbread Star Trees
Credit: Whisk Media Group
Prep: 1 hour (+ 1 hr chilling time)
Cook: 30 minutes
Makes: 4 trees
Serves: 8
Easy, soft homemade gingerbread Christmas recipe cut into stars, stacked and turned into an edible Christmas tree. Download the template below for easy measurements. This is a wonderful Christmas gingerbread activity for kids.
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Gingerbread Star Trees
Ingredients:
Christmas Tree Gingerbread
Stars
Royal Icing
Decorations
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Method:
Christmas Tree Gingerbread
- Melt Butter, brown sugar and golden syrup together in a saucepan, stirring until smooth. Cool slightly.
- Whisk the egg and butter mixture in a large bowl. Sift the flour, spices and bicarbonate of soda over the butter mixture and mix until combined into a smooth dough. Flatten into a disc shape, cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate for 1 hour or until just firm.
- Preheat oven to 180°C / 160°C fan-forced. Line two baking trays with baking paper. Divide dough in half. Roll each half between sheets of baking paper until 5mm thick. Place on baking trays and bake for 10-12 minutes.
- Divide chilled gingerbread dough in half. Roll each half between sheets of baking paper until 5 mm thick.
- Preheat oven to 180°C / 160°C fan forced. Line baking trays with baking paper.
Stars
- Using the cookie cutters, cut eight stars for each cutter size (4 cm, 6 cm, 7 cm, 8 cm, 9 cm stars) from dough. You will have 40 stars in total.
- Cut out an extra four x 4 cm stars to use to top the tree. Transfer stars to prepared trays. You will need to re-roll the dough several times to get the correct number of stars. Bake stars for 10-12 minutes. Cool on trays. Meanwhile, make the royal icing
Royal Icing
- Beat egg white until foamy then gradually beat in icing sugar until smooth and spreadable.
Decorations
- Reserve 4 of the 4 cm stars and set aside. For the remaining stars, working with one star at a time, spread with royal icing and dip into a bowl containing hundreds and thousands. Set aside to set.
- While the iced stars are setting, roll out the red fondant to 1 cm thick. Using the 4 cm star cutter, cut out 4 fondant stars. Attach them to the reserved 4 cm gingerbread stars with a little royal icing. Set aside.
- Assemble trees by joining each star offsetting slightly with another same-sized star. Continue stacking with the stars grading from the largest at the bottom reducing in star size as you stack until you have 4 trees.
- Top each tree with the red fondant stars standing upright. If you have any royal icing remaining, add a little bit of the icing to the tips of some of the stars to look like snow dripping off the tree.
Tips & Hints:
- If you feel like your stars aren’t going to hold or are leaning dramatically while building, dab a little royal icing to the base of each star to help it stick.
Gingerbread Tree Stars
Click the image to download the easy cut out templates to build your own Christmas Trees!
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