Spiced & Iced Christmas Trees - Recipes | Primary Times

Ingredients

• 100g butter, chopped
• 175g dark muscovado sugar
• 85g golden syrup
• 350g plain flour, plus extra for dusting
• 1 tbsp ground ginger
• ¼ tsp ground cloves
• 1 tsp ground cinnamon
• 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
• 1 egg , beaten
• 300g sifted icing sugar
• 16 lolly sticks or coffee stirrers
• a few sweets
• sugar, for sprinkling
• red and white tubes of writing icing