I have always wanted to bake some Gingerbread Cookies, when i checked out some recipes and most of the recipes needed molasses but this one recipe i found seemed super simple and did not need molasses. The recipe is adapted from “Borrow my eyes” the gingerbread cookies in that website looked super amazing!!!
Ingredients:
Gingerbread Cookies (Makes about 50 cookies)
- Flour – 400gm + (more for dusting)
- Butter – 125gm
- Sugar – 100gm
- Golden syrup – 100ml
- Baking Powder – 2 teaspoon
- Ginger Powder – 11/2 teaspoon
- Cinnamon Power – a pinch
Royal Icing (without meringue powder):
- Egg white – 1
- Lemon juice – 1 teaspoon
- Icing Sugar - 100-150gm
- Vanilla – 1 teaspoon
Method
Gingerbread Cookies:
- In a large bowl, Cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
- Add the golden syrup and mix well.
- In a separate bowl mix the flour, baking powder, cinnamon powder, nutmeg powder and ginger powder.
- Sift the dry ingredients into the wet mix (butter, sugar, golden syrup). Mix until it forms a ball.
- Chill the cookie dough for about 1 hour.
- Pre-heat the oven to 180 degrees celsius.
- On a well floured surface, roll out the cookie dough to the thickness you like (mine i think i rolled out to about 5 mm).
- Coat the cookie cutters with flour and cut them up and line them on a baking tray.
- I used the scalloped circle, hexagon, christmas tree, gingerbread man and star cookie cutters. The circle cutter i cut in small holes using a plastic straw, these are the christmas tree decorations.
- Bake the cookies for about 8-10 minutes.
- Once baked, let them cool on a cooling rack.
Royal Icing:
- In a large glass bowl, add the egg white and lemon juice and whisk until fluffy and soft peaks forms (using a hand mixer for about 5-8 minutes).
- Sift in the icing sugar, whisk again for another 7-10 minutes.
- Add the vanilla into the icing and beat again for about a minute.
- you can add moe icing sugar based on the consistency you want for the icing.
- Pour the icing into a piping bag and decorate the cookies as you like!!
Merry Christmas and
Happy Baking
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Happy Baking
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