Tanya Burr's stained glass edible decorations

With Christmas now less than 50 days away, prepare to celebrate in style with the help of internet sensation Tanya Burr.

The vlogging star, who has 3.7 million YouTube subscribers and 3.2 followers on Instagram, proves herself a woman of many talents in her new book Tanya’s Christmas, with baking, drinks, style, beauty and gift ideas all included.

She’s here to tell us more - and show us how to make her stained glass window Christmas biscuits, perfect for hanging on your tree.

Makes about 30

Ingredients

75g unsalted butter, softened75g dark muscovado sugar1 egg, beaten1 ½ tbsp golden syrup200g plain flour, plus extra for dusting½ tsp baking powder1 tsp ground cinnamon¼ tsp freshly grated nutmeg¼ tsp ground ginger30 clear boiled sweets, removed from any wrapping

Method

• Preheat the oven to 180C / Gas Mark 4. Line two baking trays with baking parchment.

• Put the butter and sugar in a bowl and beat together until light and fluffy. Add the egg and golden syrup and combine well, then mix in the flour, baking powder and spices to make a smooth dough.

• Dust the work surface with flour. Tip the mixture out onto the surface and roll it out to a thickness of 3-4mm.

• Cut out some large shapes with Christmas cookie cutters, transfer these shapes onto your baking trays, then cut out some smaller shapes from the inside of the bigger ones, to create space for your stained glass effect. You can re-roll the dough that you’ve removed from the centres to make more cookies until you’ve used up all the dough (you should end up with about 30 biscuits). Using a straw, poke out a hole at the top of each biscuit.

• Bake the biscuits in the oven for 5 minutes, then remove from the oven. Place a boiled sweet into each shape you’ve cut from the centre of the decorations. If the shapes you’ve cut won’t hold a whole sweet, crush the sweets into chunks in a pestle and mortar (or use a rolling pin) and add the broken bits. You can also mix colours by adding a few pieces of different coloured sweets to each hole. If the hole for the ribbon looks like it has closed over, carefully open it again with a skewer.

• Return the biscuits to the oven for 6 minutes, or until the sweets have melted to fill the shapes. Remove from the oven and leave to cool completely on the baking trays before carefully looping lengths of ribbon or string through the holes and hanging them on your tree.