Eggless Gingerbread Cookies Recipe - Gingerbread Man Cookies Recipe

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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.

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)

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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.

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