PREPARATION
1) Melt the honey, molasses, butter and sugar together, set aside to cool.
Sift the flour, baking soda, spices and salt into a bowl. Add the egg and
orange zest to the cooled butter mixture.
2) Make a well in the flour and pour this mixture onto it, stirring with a
wooden spoon until it forms a dough. Turn the dough onto a lightly
floured surface and knead briefly till smooth. Flatten into a small disc,
wrap with clingfilm and chill for 30 mins.
3) Preheat the oven to 180°C using Convection function and line the baking
trays with baking paper or silicon mats. Remove the dough from the
fridge. Roll the dough on a lightly floured surface to 5mm thick. Stamp
out the stars using a pastry cutter and place on baking trays. Gather the
trimmings together and re-roll to finish stamping out the stars.
4) Bake cookies for 12 minutes. While cookies are being baked, beat the
egg white till frothy, add the icing sugar and continue to whisk till firm.
Add the lemon juice and whisk till thicken. If it is too thick, you may add a
few drops of water to thin it.
5) Place icing into a piping bag fitted with a nozzle and decorate the
cookies with the royal icing.
