Shortbread to decorate the tree

Make the sweet pastry:

Whisk the soft butter with the sugar. Add the milk and the egg and carry on whisking so it gains volume.

Sift the flour with the baking powder and add it all at once to the previous mixture. Carry on mixing.

Form a ball and chill it for an hour.

Preheat the oven to 180 °C.

Roll the dough out on a floured surface and cut it out with cutters.

Bake for 20 minutes.

Make little holes in the biscuits to thread a string through.

Melt some chocolate, put it in a syringe and number the biscuits from 1 to 24 to have an Advent calendar in the tree ^^.