Ingredients for the icing -

First of all you will need to make the cookies. To do so you must pre-heat you oven to 350 degrees and line 2 cookie sheets with grease proof paper. After you've done this cream butter&sugar together for 4-5 minutes to ensure it's light and fluffy.Mix in the egg,vanilla and almond extracts in a separate bowl and whisk together dry ingredients. Add dry ingredients to wet ingredients and mix until smooth. Dough will be thick.Make three sizes of cookie dough balls: 1 teaspoon, 2 teaspoons, and 3 teaspoons. (You should have an even number of each.) Place medium and large cookies on a cookie sheet and press down slightly on each. Bake until center looks mostly cooked, 7 to 8 minutes. Place smallest balls of dough on another cookie sheet and press down slightly. Bake until center looks mostly cooked, 5 to 6 minutes. When cookies are done, remove from oven and let cool 2 to 3 minutes, then transfer to a cookie rack to finish cooling. Now to make your frosting: Beat butter until smooth. Add half the powdered sugar and mix until smooth. Add vanilla and 2 tablespoons water and mix until smooth. Add remaining powdered sugar and mix until smooth. Add green gel icing color (and mint flavouring if you wanted to)to frosting and mix until your desired shade of green.Assemble cookies: Get one size of each cookie. Fit a piping bag with a medium sized star piping tip (I used Wilton 32) and fill bag with green frostingPipe a swirl of frosting onto the largest cookie, then add the second medium sized cookie on top. Pipe a swirl of frosting onto the second cookie, then top with the smallest cookie. Pipe a swirl on top of the final cookie and decorate with a star and round ornament sprinkles. Continue building cookie trees, then refrigerate until ready to serve. 

Pared zest and juice of 1 orange

Pared zest of 1 lemon

4-5 cloves

1 cinnamon stick

125g caster sugar
6 ripe fresh pears

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