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250g patent flour
2 tablespoons cocoa powder
200g cold butter
100g icing sugar
2 free-range organic egg yolks
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Icing and decoration
250g icing sugar
3 drops lemon juice
edible green gel food colouring
festive sprinkles (optional)
We love to play board games, we often play them with our little monsters. So when we came across a recipe for a biscuit game online, we immediately wanted to make it. But we made it with Christmas biscuits ;)) These are chocolate cookies for a change and they are very yummie! The mini monsters decorated the biscuits very beautiful!
How to make Crosses and Noughts
Sift the flour with the cocoa.
Stir until combined.
Add the butter cubes.
Rub the butter into the flour.
Rub it in until it looks like breadcrumbs.
Then stir in the icing sugar.
Add the egg yolks and the vanilla too.
Knead it by hand into a smooth dough.
Place the dough in a clean bowl and cover it.
Place the bowl for at least 30 minutes in the fridge.
Place a sheet of baking paper on the baking tray.
Preheat the oven to 190°C
Cut the dough approximately in half.
Roll out the dough and cut it into a rectangle.
Place the rectangle on the baking paper.
Bake the rectangle for 15 - 20 minutes.
While the game board is baking in the oven you cut out the pieces, Christmas trees and gingerbread men are chosen here ;))
Place the mini-biscuits in the fridge until the board is done..
Allow the game board to cool on the baking tray for 10 minutes.
Transfer the game board to the wire rack to cool comepletely.
Meanwhile stir the white and green icing.
Fill 2 piping bags, pipe 9 white boxes on the game board.
Allow the icing to dry and decorate the gingerbread men.
Decorate the men with sprinkles
Pipe green on the Christmas trees.
Allow all the icing to dry completely.
Now you can play Noughts and Crosses! (or Tic, Tac Toe)
Store the biscuits in a cookie tin, so they stay tasty!
If there is something left to store :))) Have a very merry Christmas game!