Santa Cookie Lollies

BY RUTH CLEMENS

Christmas is coming and Santa’s on his way – enchant everyone with these cute cookie lollies.

Time: 1¹⁄₂ hours

Difficulty: Get stuck in

You Will Need

Six circular cookies baked on lolly sticks

White sugarpaste

Red and peach gel paste colours

White royal icing

Black icing pen

Circular cookie cutter 8cm (3¹⁄₈in) diameter

Disposable piping bag

Small open star piping nozzle

Small embossing rolling pin

1. Colour portions of white sugarpaste red and peach. Roll out the peach sugarpaste to 3mm (¹⁄₈in) thick and cut out six circles to cover the cookies, securing in place with a light brush of water.

2. Roll out red sugarpaste 3mm (¹⁄₈in) thick and cut out six circles; cut away the bottom two-thirds of each circle with the cutter to create hats. Secure the hats to the cookies. Use the wrong end of the piping nozzle to mark Santa’s smile.

3. Roll out white sugarpaste to 2mm (³⁄₃₂in) thick, then go over it with a small embossing rolling pin to imprint a pattern. Cut out 10 circles, then use the cutter to cut away the top one-third from six of the circles to create the beard.

4. Dividing the remaining four circles into thirds, cut away the outside edge to create the moustache pieces. Secure the beard then the moustache onto Santa’s face.

5. Make six small peach sugarpaste ball noses and secure each in place. Using a piping bag fitted with the small open star piping nozzle, pipe a royal icing fur trim to the hat. Add Santa’s eyes with the black icing pen.