Gingerbread Cookies with Icing
Baking and Desserts | British cuisine
⏳ Time
1 hour
🥕 Ingredients
15
🍽️ Servings
8
Description
Baking desserts is always fun when done together with children, and gingerbread cookies are perfect for this. First, you knead the dough together, adding a variety of aromatic spices—what a delightful form of alchemy! Then, you cut out beautiful shapes with cookie cutters, or you can skip the cutters altogether and simply write something on pieces of dough or cut out letters and figures inspired by your imagination. And here's a bonus: these cookies make great gifts when visiting friends, and everyone will be delighted.
Ingredients
- Butter - 3.5 oz
- Brown Sugar - 2.5 oz
- Maple syrup - 3 fl oz
- Whole egg - 1 piece
- Wheat Flour - 8.3 oz
- Cocoa Powder - 1 tablespoon
- Baking Powder - ½ spoons
- Grated Ginger Root - 1 tablespoon
- Cinnamon - ½ spoons
- Ground clove - ¼ spoons
- Salt - ¼ spoons
- Ground Black Pepper - ¼ spoons
- Powdered Sugar - 2.8 oz
- Rum - 1 tablespoon
- Water - 1 tablespoon
Step by Step guide
Step 1
Prepare the ingredients.
Step 2
Beat 85 grams of room temperature butter, brown sugar, and maple syrup until smooth. It's best to use a 'paddle' attachment.
Step 3
Add the egg yolk and whisk until fully combined.
Step 4
Sift the flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, ginger, cinnamon, cloves, salt, and pepper into a bowl.
Step 5
Reduce the mixer speed and add the dry mixture to the butter mixture.
Step 6
As soon as the dough comes together, place it on a floured surface. Roll out the dough to a thickness of 5 mm. If the dough is too soft to roll out, let it rest in the refrigerator for 15–20 minutes.
Step 7
Use cookie cutters to shape the future gingerbread cookies. The design should be well-defined; otherwise, it will fade during baking as the cookies rise.
Step 8
Line two baking sheets with parchment paper. Arrange the gingerbread pieces about 2 cm apart from each other. Bake for 10 minutes at 356°F. Halfway through the baking time, swap the baking sheets to ensure even cooking.
Step 9
Sift a pinch of cinnamon and powdered sugar into a bowl. Add 15 grams of melted butter, rum, and warm water. Mix well. The consistency of the finished glaze should be similar to liquid honey.
Step 10
Coat the finished gingerbread cookies with icing while they are still warm.
Step 11
If the gingerbread cookies are a bit soft after coming out of the oven, don’t worry; they will firm up as they cool. Transfer them to a plate and serve.
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