Delicious gingerbread cookies with step by step pictures. Gingerbread is a festive holiday cookies made with plain flour, brown sugar, spices like ground ginger, cinnamon. These are perfect for Christmas and fun to decorate with kids, the same cookie dough can be used to bake Gingerbread house. In this post learn how to make festive gingerbread cookies made without eggs with stepwise pictures.
Gingerbread Cookies
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.
About Gingerbread Cookies
Gingerbread is a festive holiday cookie recipe which is made all around the world specially during Christmas season. The cookie dough is made with butter, brown sugar, treacle or molasses, spices like ground ginger, cinnamon, all spice, nutmeg and salt. The dough is shaped and cut using specially made gingerbread mould and baked.
Baked gingerbread cookies is decorated with sugar icing and sprinkles. Traditionally the cookies has a hole on top and is used to hang on Christmas tree. This is a festive. cookie that is made along with family and kids. Same cookie dough cut in the right proportion can be made into Gingerbread house.
Gingerbread cookie dough usually has eggs added in them. But this recipe is modified accordingly so it is egg free.
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Gingerbread Cookies Ingredients
All Purpose Flour - Plain flour also known as refined flour or maida is used in the cookie dough. Using whole wheat flour may affect the texture of the cookies.
Brown Sugar or Demerrara Sugar - the cookies has a molasses like flavour which is achieved by the addition of brown sugar.
Honey - traditionally gingerbread cookies has molasses or treacle used. But you can use honey instead.
Unsalted Soft Butter - as mentioned butter has to be unsalted and soft and even mixing.
Baking Powder & Baking Soda - raising agent helps the cookies expand and crisp up.
Spice powders - a combination of Ginger Powder, Cinnamon Powder, Cloves Powder, Nutmeg Powder is used to flavour the cookies.
Gingerbread Cookies Preparation
Gingerbread dough - 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 at least 1 to 2 hours.
Shaping & Baking Cookies - 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.
Decorating - 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.
How to Make Gingerbread Cookies (Stepwise Pictures)
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| take ingredients for cookies |
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| take soft butter in a bowl |
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| add brown sugar |
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| add in honey |
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| baking powder, baking soda, salt and spices |
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| mix well |
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| add flour |
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| mix well |
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| shape it into a dough |
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| place it in a sheet of plastic wrap |
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| cover it up and chill in fridge for 1 to 2 hours |
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| i used the plain gingerbread cutter and the unique cutter which i got few years back |
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| now take the dough out, place it between two sheets of plastic wrap |
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| roll it out |
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| peel off the top layer of plastic wrap |
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| cut out cookies |
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| like this |
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| all done |
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| arrange it in a baking pan, place this in fridge for 10 mins if the cookies are too warm |
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| bake till done |
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| remove to cooling rack and cool completely |
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| take icing sugar in a bowl |
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| add milk |
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| make it into a thick paste like |
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| spoon this into ziploc bag |
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| cut off the edge |
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| decorate as you like |
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| done |
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| enjoy |
Expert Tips
- You can use a combination of any spices that you like including all spice.
- Use unsalted butter so the cookies don't turn salty.
- You can make the dough upto 3 days in advance and store in fridge.
- Don't over bake the cookies, else it may get too hard.
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Equipment
- Mixing Bowl
- Cookie Cutters
- OTG
Ingredients
For Cookie Dough
- 1¼ cup All Purpose Flour 150 grams
- ¼ cup Brown Sugar 50 grams
- ¼ cup Honey 60 ml
- ¼ cup Unsalted Soft Butter 50 grams
- ½ teaspoon Baking Powder
- ½ teaspoon Baking Soda
- ¼ teaspoon Salt
- 1 teaspoon Ground Ginger
- 1 teaspoon Ground Cinnamon
- ¼ teaspoon Ground Cloves
- ¼ teaspoon Ground Nutmeg
For Icing:
- ½ cup Icing Sugar
- 1 tablespoon Milk
Instructions
- 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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Anonymous
can i use wheat flour and oil instead of maida and butter?