DIY Edible Christmas Tree decoration

Hello everyone,

Hope your all well? So todays festive blog post will be a tutorial on a very easy although adorable edible tree decoration! 

 

Very tranditional but im a traditional kind of gal! And like sticking to hanging gingerbread men off my tree, looks great and makes the room smell scrumptious! 

You will need:

Gingerbread dough (see my recipe link below)

Royal icing

Edible sprinkles

Edible decorations

Ribbon 

So firstly pop on over to my gingerbread recipe   http://beautybakesandcakes23.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/gingerbread.html?m=1 and make this scrummy dough, roll out and cut your gingerbread man shapes and before you bake it complete the following steps!

Take a dowel or a knife (anything to pierce a hole into the top of his (or her) head) like so....

  

Were going to jazz our men up a little and  have them holding mini candy canes, whilst your candy cane is still in the wrapper gently press it into his arm, this will just make a slight indent so when he is cooked the candy cane will slot into place (DONT bake the candy cane at this stage we are just pressing a indent in his arm)

Bake in the oven for aprox 12-15 mins or until lightly golden, you may need to pierce the hole in his head again while they are warm! let them cool completely, take some ribbon and thread it through the hole and tie at the top, this is what we are going to use to hang him from the tree!

Next make some Royal icing, im using the packet type, make it into a thick consistency, place in a piping bag and pipe some in the indent on his arm

 

And then unwrap your mini candy cane and stick it down, leave to set for about an hour!

Next with the icing draw on some eyes and a mouth also add three dots down his tummy and stick whatever you like on him for buttons im using edible silver pearls, you can use jelly sweets, chocolate buttons anything really! 

Next add a little water to your Royal icing so its not as thick and more of a spreadable consistency, spread some on his feet and add some sprinkles im using Christmas spinkles, again you can use jelly sweets, coloured sugar see my DIY sprinkles recipe for this http://beautybakesandcakes23.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/diy-edible-sprinkles.html?m=1 

Leave to set and tardar!

Hope you all enjoyed this, have you tried this? Any recommendations? Stay tuned for a lot more festive posts! 

Why not try this using a Christmas tree cutter, a round cutter to make baubles, i'll be doing another DIY tree decoration post with more ideas coming soon:)

Happy baking

Xxx