Recipe: Perfect Gingerbread cookies

Gingerbread cookies. Free UK Delivery on Eligible Orders Method. Beat together the butter, treacle, brown sugar and salt in a large mixing bowl. Add the egg, then beat through all of the remaining dry ingredients apart from the caster sugar.

Gingerbread cookies are a must for the holidays, from gingerbread people to gingerbread houses. Lightly grease or line two baking trays. Sift the flour, bicarbonate of soda and ginger into a bowl. You can have Gingerbread cookies using 8 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Gingerbread cookies

1. Prepare 125 grams of unsalted butter slightly melted.
2. It's 300 grams of all-purpose flour.
3. Prepare 1 tbsp of honey.
4. Prepare 120 grams of white sugar.
5. Prepare 1 large of eggs.
6. Prepare 2 tsp of ground ginger.
7. Prepare 1 tsp of cinnamon.
8. Prepare 1 tsp of nutmeg.

Rub in the butter with your fingertips until it resembles coarse breadcrumbs; stir in sugar. Sift together the flour, bicarbonate of soda, ginger and cinnamon and pour into the bowl of a food processor. Add the butter and blend until the mix looks like breadcrumbs. Line two baking trays with parchment.

Gingerbread cookies step by step

1. Mix the egg yolk, the sugar, the butter and the flour. Pre'heat the oven at 180C..
2. When the mass looks crumbled add the cinnamon, the ginger and the nutmeg..
3. Knead it adding the egg white (do NOT whisk them). Once done extended it (1cm of thickness) on a tray covered with vegetable paper and let it rest in the refrigerator for 1 hour..
4. Take it out of the fridge and start making the shapes you wish. If you need to make a second badge, make repeat the 2nd half of process number 3..
5. Bake for 20-25 minutes or until golden brown..

Sieve and combine all dry ingredients into a large bowl. Melt margarine and golden syrup in a pan. Using cutters, cut out the gingerbread men shapes and place on the baking tray, leaving a gap between them. When cooled decorate with the writing icing and cake decorations. A unique, spicy-sweet cross between a biscuit and cake, its reputation quickly spread and it is now enjoyed by food lovers all over the world.