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 12 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of gingerbread cookies

You need 1 cup of butter.
It's 1 1/2 cup of sugar.
It's 1 of egg.
Prepare 2 tbsp of dark corn syrup.
You need 1 tbsp of molasses.
You need 3 cup of flour.
You need 1 1/2 tsp of orange zest.
It's 2 tsp of baking soda.
It's 2 tsp of ground cinnamon.
You need 1 tsp of ground ginger.
It's 1/2 tsp of salt.
Prepare 1/2 of ground cloves.

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

preheat oven 375.
with an electric mixer, beat sugar and butter. then add egg, syrup, and molasses..
in a seperate bowl, whisk together flour, soda and spices.
fridgerate dough for an hour. roll dough out and cut with cookie cutters.
cook cookies 8 to 10 minutes..

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.