Centre Travel

To make 4 boots you will need a stencil made of white cardboard: 15 cm high from the sole to the top of the boot and 13 cm wide from toe to heel. Dough: 259 g whole wheat flour, 1 tsp baking powder, 1mixed spice, pulp of one vanilla pod, 80 g cold margarine, 2 tbs nut liqueur, 100 g molasses, 50 g double cream Icing: 200 g icing sugar, 1 egg white, red food colouring. Dough: Mix flour, baking powder and spices. Add flakes of margarine, liqueur, molasses and double cream. Rapidly knead together. Make into a ball and wrap in cling film and refrigerate. After about an hour, roll the dough until it 12 cm thick. Cut the 4 boots. Transfer the boots on a baking tray and bake in a preheated oven 175 C for 15 minutes. Let cool. Icing: Sift the icing sugar and stir it into a thick, smooth past with the egg white. Dye 2/3 of the dough with the red colouring. The white icing left put into a piping bag. Pipe around the edges of the boots,em...

600 g almonds 100 g apricot jam 3 egg whites 15 g cinnamon 125 g sugar 125 g icing sugar 2 tbs lemon juice For the decoration : 1 egg white 80 g icing sugar 1 tbs lemon juice Grind the almonds and mix the cinnamon. Pass apricot jam through a strainer. Beat the egg whites until stiff, and gradually add sugar and icing sugar. Stir the lemon juice and jam into the egg whites. Fold the almonds with a wooden spoon. Leave the dough and refrigerate for 2 hours. Divide the dough into portions. Roll each portions between two sheets of cling film. On a baking tray lined with baking parchment, cut out stars and place on tray. For the glaze: whisk the egg white until stiff, gradually add sifted icing sugar and the lemon juice. once creamy, spoon the mixture over the stars. Bake cinnamon stars in a war...