Christmas cookies with fondant

This Christmas cookies can be both eaten and used as Christmas tree decorations.

Here’s what you need

cold shortcrust pastry

mini cookies plunger cutters

rolling pin with rings of two sizes

silicone baking sheet or parchment lined ones

pan with parchment paper

skewer stick

white fondant

color decors red and green

cup with icing sugar for roll

cup with icing sugar and water

1 brush

1 cutter

Star shaped tool

3mm/0.11 ’’ ribbon

Scissors

Note: I used Silikomart Christmas Mini Cookie Cutter set ACC092, but I can’t link it, because it can’t be found on Silikomart site!

Instructions
Roll the shortcrust pastry using your thicker rings (3mm/0.11’’) and cut out your shapes without press too much.
Use the skewer stick to obtain a hole.
Transfer the cookies on a pan and let them rest in fridge for 30 minutes. Bake the cookies.
Use the red and green color decors and obtain red and green fondant
Roll the white fondant into two logs, long enough to encircle a cookie, and put them in a shape of a candy stick. Encircle cookies to take the exact dimension.
Now cut so that you won’t see ending points. Press to fix

Prepare a little ball and cut a hole. Hole the candy stick log, too.
Obtain more logs, mixing colors with the white fondant just a bit.
Roll the white fondant using your thinner rings ( 1mm, 0.05’’) and cut out shapes with mini cookies cutters, now pressing strongly.
Now brush the back of the fondant cookies with the water and icing sugar mixture, and paste them on the pastry cookies.
Wet just a bit the engravings on the fondant, and put there very thin logs prepared with coloured fondant. Use cutter to cut out excess.
Engrave little stars with appropriate tool.

Make a hole on the fondant shape.
Insert the ribbon through the hole.
Now insert the two tails of the ribbon through the hole of the ball and of the candy stick log.
End with a knot and a bow!