Gingerbread cookies have been around since the 19th century. Its spicy flavor and aroma is native to Sweden, where it has become a popular Christmas dish. Knowing the recipe for gingerbread cookies, you can prepare an excellent New Year's dish, decorated according to your exclusive design. Making gingerbread cookies can be a new tradition in your family.
It is necessary
- - flour 2 tbsp.;
- - 2 tsp ground ginger;
- - 1 tsp cinnamon;
- - 1 tsp ground cloves;
- - 0.5 tsp baking powder;
- - 100 g of butter;
- - 1 egg;
- - 1 tbsp. Sahara.
Instructions
Step 1
Place the items you need on the table. The butter and eggs should be at room temperature.
Step 2
Grate the butter. So it will be easier to mix it with sugar, a glass of which needs to be added to the butter. Make gingerbread dough in a bowl.
Step 3
Add 1 egg and continue stirring in. Ideal with a mixer on hand. Then you can use it at a low speed, but you can get by with a regular whisk or fork. Mix thoroughly for 5 minutes.
Step 4
Set aside the mixture of butter, eggs and sugar to rest for 10 minutes at room temperature.
Step 5
Now, through a sieve, add 2 cups of flour to the oil mixture. You can not use a sieve, but with it the dough will turn out with a more delicate structure.
Step 6
After the flour, baking powder, ginger, cinnamon and cloves are added.
Step 7
The dough is kneaded thoroughly. It should turn out to be a little sticky in the end. It is best to knead it with your hands. It is thanks to the heat emanating from the hands that the gingerbread dough will turn out to be a uniform consistency.
Step 8
Roll out the dough into a layer no more than 5 mm thick. If you want to make gingerbread, you can increase the thickness of the dough. But remember, the thinner you roll the layer, the crunchy the gingerbread cookie will be.
Step 9
If you have cookie cutter molds, use them to make curly baked goods. If there are no molds at hand, then you can cut in the gingerbread cookies with an ordinary knife. Any shape and size can be chosen.
Step 10
Preheat the oven to 180 ° C. In convection mode, in order for the gingerbread cookies to cook, it is enough to hold them in the oven for 10 minutes. You need to bake at an average level.
Step 11
After cooking, place the cookies on a flat surface. While it is hot, it is soft and can deform. But once the gingerbread cookie has cooled, it will take on its crunchy flavor.
Step 12
Decorate the gingerbread cookie to your liking. The classic way of decorating is icing. To prepare it, beat 1 egg white until frothy, and then pour 150 g of powdered sugar through a sieve. For a shiny glaze, add a few drops of lemon juice. If you want to make the glaze of a certain color, then add food coloring to the mass.
Step 13
Decorate the gingerbread cookie with icing through a piping syringe or bag. To prevent icing from spreading, first draw the outline of the drawing, only after it dries, fill in the inner part.
