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Cream the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy, then beat in the milk and vanilla
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Sift the flour, salt, baking powder and cornstarch into the bowl and mix well to form a dough.
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You may need a little extra milk if using gluten-free flour
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Cut the dough in half and flatten.
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Wrap in clingfilm or baking parchment and chill in the fridge for an hour.
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You can also at this stage put the dough in a freezer bag and freeze it for up to 3 months
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Preheat the oven to gas 5/ 190C / 375F and line your baking sheets with baking parchment
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Take a disc of dough out of the fridge and let sit out for 10 minutes so it's easier to roll out
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Dust a surface with flour then roll out the dough to a quarter inch thick and cut out circle shapes
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Press the cake pop stick halfway up each cookie to make the indent shape then place on the baking sheets 2cm apart
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Bake for 12-15 minutes or until golden brown then cool on a wire rack
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To decorate I use ready roll icing.
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Colour the icing as you wish with a few drops of food colouring.
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Roll out and cut a disc the same size as you cut your cookies.
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Give the cookie a brush with some sugared water, put the cake pop stick in place with a little jam to keep it in place then lay the icing disc on top
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Build up your design with more icing, edible decoration etc.
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For the santa suits I coloured some icing black and cut out a strip for the belt.
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I used a gold edible ink pen for the buckle and some sugar balls for buttons.
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Stick all the bits on with some sugared water to help them stick
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For the snowmen I cut out different colour hat shapes and rolled little balls of orange icing into cones for the noses
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These will work well for shapes like xmas trees, stars etc.
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They make a nice treat for the kids stockings.
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Put a small cellophane bag over the top and tie with a metallic twist tie
