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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  Australasian >> Australian >> Australian

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. Preheat the oven to 180 deg Celsius. | 2. sift flour, baking powder and soda, spices and a pinch of salt into a bowl. | 3. Using an electric mixer, beat butter and brown sugar until fluffy. Add honey and egg. Beat until combined. | 4. On low speed, beat in sifted dry ingredients until mixture comes together. | 5. Divide the dough in half. Wrap separately in plastic. Refrigerate for 30 minutes. | 6. Trace 19 cm, 15 cm, 10 cm, 7.5 cm and 4.5 cm stars on to cardboard and cut out. For the 2 smaller sizes cutters may able to used. | 7. Roll out dough halves until 4 mm thick. Using star templates and 7.5 cm cutter, cut out 3 stars of each size from dough. Using the 4.5 cm star, cut out as many stars as possible from the remaining dough. | 8. Place same sized stars together, 3 cm apart, on baking paper-lined oven trays. Bake larger stars for 8-10 minutes; smaller stars for 5-7 minutes or until deep golden. Stand biscuits for 5 minutes. Transfer to wire racks to cool. | 9. Place eggwhite in a bowl. Stir in icing sugar, 2 tablespoons at a time, until combined. | 10. Stack the largest stars at offset angles, placing 2-3, 4.5 cm stars in between. Glue each layer with icing. | 11. Continue stacking in decreasing size until all 7.5 cm stars are used. Finish with one 4.5 cm star flat and a second one upright. Use icing as 'glue' to decorate tree with cachous. | 12. Tie up remaining small stars to look like gifts. Leave tree to set for one hour. Serve dusted with icing sugar. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
plain flour	500			-	-	-	-
baking powder	1	teaspoon		2.438	1.2742	0.0	0.0
baking soda	1	teaspoon		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
ginger	3	teaspoons	ground	4.8	1.0662	0.1092	0.045
cardamom	1/2	teaspoon		3.11	0.6847	0.1076	0.067
salt	1	pinch		-	-	-	-
butter	150	g	unsalted softened	1075.5	0.09	1.275	121.665
dark brown sugar	175			-	-	-	-
honey	150			-	-	-	-
egg	1			71.5	0.36	6.28	4.755
egg white	1			17.16	0.2409	3.597	0.0561
icing sugar	240		sifted	-	-	-	-
silver cachou				-	-	-	-

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.