Gingerbread Votives Recipe

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Ingredients
6
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Nutrition
934
Calories
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Ingredients:

  • 1 sheet poster board or cardboard
  • 1 recipe gingerbread snowflake cookie dough
  • 2 cups sugar
  • 1/2 cup water

Directions:

  1. Cut 1 (9- x 5-inch) pattern, 1 (6- x 3 1/2-inch) pattern, and 1 (3- x 3 1/2-inch) pattern from poster board or cardboard.
  2. Roll gingerbread dough to 1/4-inch thickness on a lightly floured surface; cut 4 (9- x 5-inch) rectangles using pattern. Transfer rectangles to parchment paper- or lightly greased aluminum foil-lined baking sheets.
  3. Cut designs from rectangles with desired shapes of small cutters and remove, leaving a 1/2-inch border around edges. Reserve dough scraps.
  4. Reroll dough scraps to 1/4-inch thickness, and cut 4 (6-x 3 1/2-inch) rectangles using pattern. Repeat transferring and cutting procedure as directed. Reserve scraps.
  5. Reroll dough scraps to 1/4-inch thickness, and cut 4 (3-x 3 1/2-inch) rectangles using pattern. Repeat transferring and cutting procedure as directed.
  6. Cook sugar and 1/2 cup water in a medium saucepan over medium-high heat, stirring until sugar dissolves. Cook, without stirring, 10 to 12 minutes or until a candy thermometer reaches hard crack stage (300°) and mixture is light golden brown.
  7. Pour into a lightly greased 15- x 10-inch jellyroll pan; cool. Coarsely crush candy.
  8. Fill cutouts in gingerbread rectangles with candy, making sure candy touches cookie around edges.
  9. Bake at 350° for 15 to 20 minutes or until sugar melts and cookies are golden. Cool in pans on wire racks.
  10. Glue together long edges of large rectangles with a hot-glue gun to form large votive. Repeat procedure with remaining rectangles, making medium and small votives.
  11. Spoon Royal Icing into a pastry bag fitted with a star tip; pipe onto edges of votives. Let stand 8 hours. Place votives over candles.
  12. NOTE: Coarsely crushed Butter Rum Life Savers may be substituted for crushed sugar syrup candy.
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Nutrition Facts

Per ServingPer 100 g
Amount Per 1 Serving
Calories 933.6 Kcal (3909 kJ)
Calories from fat 0 Kcal
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 0g 0%
Sodium 7.17mg 0%
Potassium 4.8mg 0%
Total Carbs 240g 80%
Sugars 235.2g 941%
Calcium 14.3mg 1%
Amount Per 100 g
Calories 260.42 Kcal (1090 kJ)
Calories from fat 0 Kcal
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 0g 0%
Sodium 2mg 0%
Potassium 1.34mg 0%
Total Carbs 66.95g 80%
Sugars 65.61g 941%
Calcium 4mg 1%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet. Your daily values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.
Find out how many calories should you eat.

Tastes

  • salty
  • savory
  • bitter
  • sweet
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Recipe Tags

Weightwatchers Points

  • 18.7
    Points
  • 26
    PointsPlus

Good Points

  • fat free,
  • saturated fat free,
  • sodium free,
  • cholesterol free

Bad Points

  • High in Sugar

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