Gift box thank you teacher

Put 250 g room-temperature butter and 150 g icing sugar into a large mixing bowl. Beat everything with the dough hook of your stand mixer for 2 minutes, until the mixture is creamy and smooth.

Add 1/2 tsp salt, 1 tsp vanilla liquid aroma and 1 egg. Use a measuring spoon to dose the salt and aroma exactly. Mix everything for another 2 minutes with the dough hook so the ingredients combine well.

We chose vanilla, but you can also flavour the dough with a different liquid aroma.

Finally, add 450 g flour and mix for just 30 seconds on a low setting, until a crumbly mass forms.

Knead the dough by hand until it is smooth. But not for too long: otherwise the gluten develops and the cookies spread during baking. What we want here are nice, smooth cookies.

Place the dough between two sheets of baking paper and roll it out with a large rolling pin. Using the 5 mm dough guides, it will be the same thickness everywhere.

Put the dough in the freezer for 10 minutes, so it is easier to cut out afterwards. Meanwhile, get a perforated baking sheet and a perforated baking mat ready so that the cookies bake evenly.

Now think about your message. Our photos show "MERCI MAITRESSE" and "SCHONE FERIEN", but you can of course choose any word you like, for example "DANKE". Cut out the letters with the Alphabet Cookie cutter set.

Now cut out all the other shapes that should go into your gift box. We have added stars and hearts. In our range you will find many more cookie cutter shapes.

Place the cookies on the baking mat and put everything in the freezer for 10 minutes. Meanwhile, preheat the oven to 135 °C fan.

Bake the cookies for 30 minutes in the middle of the oven until they are nicely golden brown, and let them cool completely before you start decorating.

Depending on the text and shapes, some dough may be left over: well wrapped, it keeps for 3 days in the fridge or for about 2 months in a zip bag in the freezer.

Place the white Chocolate flavour pen in a Measuring cup with hot water for 5 minutes so the chocolate becomes liquid. Get the small rolling pin with the purple Rolling pin guides, the Magic roll-out powder and the Fondant ready. We chose the pastel colours of the Fondant set.

Knead the fondant well until it is nice and pliable. Dust the work surface with a little Magic roll-out powder and roll out the fondant to a thickness of about 1.5 mm with the small rolling pin. Use the Alphabet cookie cutter set to cut out the matching letters.

Use the white Chocolate flavour pen to spread a little chocolate on the cookie and stick the fondant letter onto it.

And here is the result! Put the letters together to form your message. When it comes to colours, shapes and texts, let your imagination run wild.

For the finishing touch, draw fine lines over the letters with the Chocolate flavour pen and sprinkle them immediately with sugar sprinkles, while the chocolate is still soft.

On some letters we have used blue sugar sprinkles. This creates lovely splashes of colour in your box.

Line a box with tissue paper and place the cookies inside. White dahlias made of edible paper and a pretty cake ribbon in the colours of your cookies make the gift perfect. Your sweet gift box is ready to give away!