New Year and Christmas holidays are coming soon. Therefore, it is imperative to bake themed gingerbread cookies. This is a very exciting and enjoyable activity that is especially fun to do with children.
Recipe content:
- Ingredients
- Step by step cooking
- Video recipe
In recent years, ginger sweets have become more and more traditional. These are pancakes, and cakes, and buns, and thin cookies, and gingerbread, from which whole gingerbread houses are assembled. Therefore, I propose to prepare gingerbread in advance in order to honor your relatives on the New Year and Christmas days. This gingerbread recipe is very versatile. Since one dough can be used to bake both gingerbread and cookies at the same time. It depends on the thickness of the dough that is being rolled out. If you roll it very thinly, you will get crispy cookies, and if you make it lush, you will get gingerbread cookies with a pleasant spicy aroma.
Also, such Christmas gingerbread cookies are not only a delicious treat, but also a beautiful toy for the Christmas tree. This will especially appeal to children when the tree toy can be eaten. Also, Christmas gingerbread can be an interesting gift. It's so great to hand over beautiful, delicious gingerbread cookies to guests. All Christmas baking recipes are distinguished by the presence of all kinds of spices in the dough. In addition to ginger, you can add cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, cardamom, anise, clove buds, allspice peas … And for a change, you can use several spices at once.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 353 kcal.
- Servings - 15-18
- Cooking time - 1 hour 20 minutes
Ingredients:
- Flour - 250 g
- Butter - 100 g
- Egg - 1 pc.
- Honey - 3 tablespoons
- Ginger powder - 2 tsp
- Salt - a pinch
- Baking soda - 1 tsp without top
Cooking Christmas gingerbread
1. Place flour, salt, baking soda and ginger powder in a mixing bowl. You can use fresh ginger root instead of ginger powder. To do this, clean it and beat it with a blender or grate it on a fine grater.
2. Stir in flour and ginger.
3. In a bowl, combine egg, room temperature butter and honey. Stir the food until it becomes a homogeneous mass. This can be done with a mixer or simply knead with a fork.
4. Pour the egg-oil mass into the flour mass.
5. Stir the dough to distribute the food evenly. The dough will be quite soft. Therefore, cover it with cling film and send it to the refrigerator for half an hour. During this time, it will harden a little and then it will be easy to work with it.
6. After this time, take a portion of the dough and roll it into a ball, which you put on parchment paper.
7. Press down on the bun with your hands so that it crushes and takes the shape of a gingerbread. Place the products at a short distance from each other, because when baking, the gingerbread will increase in size.
8. Send the product to a heated oven up to 180 ° C for 30 minutes. Sprinkle the finished gingerbread with icing sugar or cover with any icing. If you want to present them to your friends, then put them in a beautiful New Year's box or bag and tie with a ribbon.
See also the video recipe on how to make Christmas Spirits gingerbread.
