Chocolate Christmas Cookies

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• Bake these yummy Christmas cookies that double as decorations for your tree!
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• Ingredients:  
• 200g butter, softened
• 1/3 cup (75g) brown sugar
•  2 tablespoons golden syrup
•  2 cups (300g) plain flour
•  1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
•  2 tablespoons Nestle Baking Cocoa
•  1 ready-made small piping bag
•  1 1/3 cups (200g) Nestle White Melts, melted
•  Ribbon, to decorate

Method: 

1. Step 1
   Preheat oven to 180C/160C fan forced. Grease and line 2 baking trays with non-stick baking paper.
2. Step 2
   Using an electric mixer, beat butter and sugar until pale and creamy. Add golden syrup; beat until well combined.
3. Step 3
   Stir in flour and cinnamon and Nestle Baking Cocoa and mix until just combined. Turn dough out onto a lightly floured surface and knead lightly until smooth. Cover and place in the fridge for 30 minutes to rest.
4. Step 4
   Using a lightly floured rolling pin, roll out dough until 4mm thick. Using 8 cm star or snowflake shaped biscuit cutter, cut shapes from the dough. Place on prepared trays. Then using a 4 cm star or snowflake shaped biscuit cutter, cut a smaller shape from the centre of each biscuit.
5. Step 5
   Use a thin drinking straw to cut a small hole in the top corner of each biscuit. Continue cutting biscuits from the dough, re-rolling as necessary. Bake for 12 minutes or until golden Set aside to cool slightly.
6. Step 6
   Spoon Nestle White Melts into a piping bag; drizzle on to biscuits.
7. Step 7
   Thread ribbon through the hole in each biscuit and secure with a knot.

Recipe courtesy of: www.taste.com.au