Allegra Mcevedy served up delicious Christmas stained glass window biscuits on Steph’s Packed Lunch.

The ingredients are: 100g unsalted butter, at room temperature, plus extra for greasing, 100g caster sugar, 1 medium free-range egg, beaten, ½ tsp vanilla extract, 200g plain flour, plus extra for rolling out, ½ tsp baking powder, Pinch of salt, Couple of pinches of Christmassy spices, ie ginger/cinnamon/nutmeg/allspice and a packet of clear boiled fruit sweets.

See recipes by Allegra in her book titled: Economy Gastronomy: Eat well for less available from Amazon now.