Christmas / 22 December, 2025 / Annabel Karmel

Annabel Karmel’s Christmas Jumper Biscuits

Handmade gifts are thoughtful, personal and a great way to encourage little ones to express themselves. Kids will love designing their own edible Christmas jumper biscuits for family, friends or teachers. Whether they’re sprinkling stars or piping icing, there’s no ‘right’ way to be creative, which makes it even more fun!

MAKES: 10-12 BISCUITS

Ingredients

Biscuits

• 250g butter, softened
• 150g golden caster sugar
• 2 tsp vanilla extract
• 1 egg yolk
• 300g plain flour

Icing

• 300g icing sugar
• 2 tbsp water

Decoration

• Sugar snowflakes
• Red ready-to-roll icing
• Red, green & white icing pens
• Green food colouring

Method

Cream the butter and sugar together in a bowl until fluffy. Add the vanilla and egg yolk. Whisk, then add the plain flour. Beat until the mixture comes together. Knead into a dough and chill for 30 minutes.

Line two baking sheets with baking parchment. Roll out the dough on a floured work surface, cut out Christmas jumper shapes using a cookie cutter and arrange on the baking sheets.  Preheat the oven to 180 C and bake the cookies for about 12 minutes.

To make the icing. Mix the icing sugar and water together to make a smooth paste. Divide into 2 bowls. Leave one bowl as it is for your white icing and in the other add drops of green food colouring to create your desired shade of Christmas jumper green.

Decorate your Christmas jumpers with icing and festive patterns!

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