Gingerbread cookies are very popular in Western countries, there are a huge number of recipes for its preparation. Among this set, one cannot fail to highlight the recipe for delicious pastries by the domestic chef Julia Vysotskaya.
Gingerbread cookies are traditional Christmas baked goods. These cookies are not only tasty, but also very beautiful. Quite often, children take part in its preparation, then they decorate the Christmas tree with ready-made baked goods.
Gingerbread cookies were invented by English monks in the 12th century, for the sake of curiosity, one of the monks added a handful of ginger to the dough, it should be noted that it turned out pretty good.
To make Christmas gingerbread cookies according to Julia Vysotskaya's recipe, you will need: 250 g flour, 100 g butter, 100 g granulated sugar, 50 g honey, 1 egg, 2 tsp. ground ginger, 1 tsp. cinnamon, 1/2 tsp. cloves, 1/2 tsp baking powder, 1 protein, 150 g icing sugar, colored sprinkles.
Ginger is a very useful product, mainly used for colds and, of course, in cooking.
To make Christmas gingerbread cookies, place the softened butter in a medium bowl, add granulated sugar to it, and grind the ingredients. Break the chicken egg into a bowl and mix well. Next, you need to add honey. If the beekeeping product is too thick, heat it over low heat or in the microwave and then cool it down. Add the cooled melted honey to the rest of the ingredients, do not forget to stir.
Sift the wheat flour into a separate bowl using a fine sieve. Add ground ginger, cinnamon, cloves and baking powder to it. Pour the dry mixture into the liquid ingredients in portions, kneading the dough with a tablespoon each time. When all the flour mixture has been added, knead the dough and roll into a ball. Cover it with cling film and refrigerate for 1 hour.
After the time has passed, sprinkle a little flour on the table surface. Remove the chilled dough from the refrigerator. Take a third of the total mass, and put the rest back in the refrigerator. Roll out the gingerbread dough into a layer 2-3 mm thick. Take cookie cutters and cut figurines out of the dough. If you don't have molds, you can make stencils out of paper or cardboard, and then cut out cookies with a sharp knife. Roll the remaining pieces of dough into a ball, roll it back into a layer and cut out the cookies.
Using a spatula, carefully transfer the gingerbread dough pieces to a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Maintain a distance between the cookies. Remove the rest of the dough from the refrigerator and make several more biscuits in the same way. If you want to hang the baked goods on the tree, make holes at the top, for example, with a juice straw.
Light the oven to 180 ° C and bake each cookie for 5-10 minutes. Cool the finished product and transfer to a plate.
Prepare the icing. Pour the egg white into a small bowl and beat a little. Start gradually adding the powdered sugar to the egg whites without stopping whisking. You should have a fairly thick, viscous mass. Put the resulting icing in a small bag, cut a small corner off the bag. Glaze over the gingerbread cookie for all your imagination. Next, you can decorate the baked goods with colored sprinkles.
