Impress your family and friends! These stained glass biscuits are so easy to make and they look stunning. Once made, the biscuits can be stored in an airtight container and should be eaten within 2 days.

They would make lovely presents or even tree decorations. If you wish to hang them on your tree you will need to make a small hole near the top edge of each biscuit using a straw before you put them in the oven in step 8. Then you will need to thread and loop a small piece of ribbon through the holes when the finished biscuits have cooled.

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100g butter
100g caster sugar
225g plain flour
Half tsp ground ginger
Half tsp ground cinnamon
Half tsp vanilla extract
1 large egg yolk
Clear boiled fruit sweets
You will also need a baking tray, baking paper, mixing bowl, small bowl, wooden spoon, rolling pin, 2 cookie cutters – 1 large and 1 small to fit inside the large one, kitchen scales and oven gloves.

Preheat the oven to 200ºC/Fan 180ºC/Gas Mark 6.
Put the butter and sugar into a mixing bowl and beat together until fluffy.

Separating the egg yolk from the egg white: Without pouring the egg out of its shell, gently crack the egg open. Carefully holding it over a bowl tip the yolk from one half of the egg shell to the other. The egg white should go into the bowl and the yolk will remain in the shell.

Add the egg yolk and vanilla extract to your butter mixture.

Beat well until the mixture has a consistent texture.

Add the ground ginger and ground cinnamon to the mixture. Now slowly add just a little flour and mix together. Keep adding a little flour at a time, until it becomes a firm dough. You will be able to use your hands to mix when it becomes less sticky! Do not add all of the flour at once as you may find that the dough becomes too dry and crumbly. By adding a little at a time you can decide when you have put enough in. You may not need to use all 225g of the flour, it will depend on the egg yolk.

Line the baking tray with baking paper. Roll out the dough to about the thickness of a pound coin. Using the large cookie cutter cut out several biscuits. Transfer them to your baking tray.

Using the small cookie cutter cut out the insides of the biscuits - make sure you leave a biscuit frame all the way around.

Here is my first batch; I can fit 6 biscuits onto my tray. Remember not to put the biscuits right next to each other; if they are touching they will become 1 big biscuit! Space your biscuits out well. Please get an adult to do this bit: Place the tray in the oven and bake for about 4-6 minutes and then remove from oven.

Unwrap the boiled sweets and place one sweet in the middle of each biscuit.

Please get an adult to do this bit: Place the tray back in oven and bake for a further 5 minutes until the biscuits are golden and the sweets have melted.

Leave the biscuits to cool on the tray. You now have your own stained glass biscuits! Well Done!