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Christmas Gingerbread Cookies
Difficulty:
★★☆☆☆ (easy)Yield:
70 cookiesIngredients:
For dough:
- 400 g all-purpose flour
- 75 g butter, room temperature
- 2 eggs
- 140 g powdered sugar
- 2 tablespoons honey
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 20 g store bought gingerbread spices (or 7 cloves, 1 teaspoon of anise, 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon, pinch of star anise)
For icing:
- 1 egg yolk
- 150 g powdered sugar
- 1/2 tablespoon lemon juice
- neutral oil to grease baking tray
- 1 egg for eggwash
Preparations:
- Preheat oven to 190˚C.
- Grease two baking trays.
- Put all the dry ingredients for the gingerbread cookies into larger bowl and mix them together. Add butter, eggs and honey and knead until a smooth dough forms.
- Sprinkle lightly your working desktop with some flour and roll out the dough to a thickness of about 5 mm. Cut out the cookies using cookie cutters of various shapes. Place them directly on the pre-greased baking trays. Bake for about 10 - 12 minutes or until the cookies begin to brown slightly.
- Immediately after removing cookies out from the oven, brush them with some egg-wash. Allow to cool.
- Meanwhile, prepare the icing. Mix together egg white, lemon juice and sugar to a slightly denser paste consistency. For icing use piping bag, plastic bag or plastic bottle. Draw the outlines first and let it dry (at least 1 hour). Dilute the icing with a little bit of a lemon juice and flood in the contours to form an even layer. Let dry completely. Once again, add some powdered sugar and decorate the white areas. You’ll create a fine relief.
