Gingerbread cookies is one recipe which i wanted to bake for a long time. Finally made this year and it was so much fun making them and decorating time. I just went for a plain white icing and nothing fancy. You can take your own time and decorate it as you like.
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I am sure this will be fun recipe for you to bake with your kids. They will look making it and decorating it.
Hope you will give this a try and let me know how it turns out for you.
Preparation Time : 10 mins
Chilling Time : 1 to 2 hours
Baking Time : 10 mins
Makes: 20 cookies
Recipe Source: Sharmis Passions
Ingredients:
For Cookies:
All Purpose Flour / Maida – 1 cup + 1/4 cup (150 grams)
Brown Sugar or Demarara Sugar – 1/4 cup powdered (50 grams)
Honey – 1/4 cup (60 ml)
Unsalted Soft Butter – 1/4 cup (50 grams)
Baking Powder – 1/2 tsp
Baking Soda / Cooking Soda – 1/2 tsp
Salt – 1/4 tsp
Ginger Powder – 1 tsp
Cinnamon Powder – 1 tsp
Cloves Powder – 1/4 tsp
Nutmeg Powder – 1/4 tsp
For Icing:
Icing Sugar – 1/2 cup
Milk – 2 to 3 tsp
(My 1 cup measures 240 ml)
Method:
Take butter, brown sugar, honey in a bowl and whisk well till creamy.
Add in baking powder, baking soda, salt and spices and whisk well.
Now add in flour and shape it into a dough.
Wrap it in cling wrap and chill in fridge for atleast 1 to 2 hours.
Preheat oven to 180 degree C / 360 degree F.
Now roll this between two sheets of plastic wrap and cut using gingerbread shape cutter.
Arrange it in a baking pan which is lined with parchment paper.
Bake for 10 mins.
Now remove from oven and cool completely.
Now make icing, take icing sugar and milk in a bowl and whisk till thick and creamy. Pour this in a ziploc bag and snip off the edge. Decorate the cookie as you like and decorate with sugar silver balls.
Enjoy.
Pictorial:
take ingredients for cookies |
take soft butter in a bowl |
add brown sugar |
add in honey |
add baking powder, baking soda, salt and spices |
mix well |
add flour |
mix well |
shape it into a dough |
place it in a sheet of plastic wrap |
cover it up and chill in fridge for 1 to 2 hours |
i used the plain gingerbread cutter and the unique cutter which i got few years back |
now take the dough out, place it between two sheets of plastic wrap |
roll it out |
peel off the top layer of plastic wrap |
cut out cookies |
like this |
all done |
arrange it in a baking pan, place this in fridge for 10 mins if the cookies are too warm |
bake till done |
remove to cooling rack and cool completely |
take icing sugar in a bowl |
add milk |
make it into a thick paste like |
spoon this into ziploc bag |
cut off the edge |
decorate as you like |
done |
enjoy |
can i use wheat flour and oil instead of maida and butter?