Ginger cookie recipe

When the window is cold and cold, and the Christmas holidays are about to knock on the door, it is time to fill the house with the aromas of spices and citrus. The taste of ginger and the smell of cinnamon, notes of cardamom and cloves - all this is about your favorite ginger cookies! Cooking it once, you will get such a charge of magic that the New Year will rush to your house today.

Cookies according to our recipe is exactly like IKEA – thin, crispy, aromatic. We strongly recommend you to bake a double portion at once, because this is a meal!



DepositPhotos

A Simple Ginger Cookie Recipeshared "Site"Checked more than once: cook with excess, give to friends, congratulate friends and relatives. The recipe is simply excellent, and from the specified number of ingredients 3-4 gingerbreads are obtained. Fairy tale!

Simple Ginger Cookies Ingredients

• 200g wheat flour
• 1 egg
• 100g butter
• 110g sugar
• 3 tsp honey
• 1.5 tsp soda
• 2 tsp ground ginger
• 1 tsp ground cinnamon
• 1 tsp ground cardamom
• 1/2 tsp ground cloves

Preparation

1. Mix the ground spices with soda, and then with flour. If the spices are whole, thoroughly rub them in a mortar and only then add to the dough.
   
   
   DepositPhotos
2. In a separate vessel, rub the oil with sugar, add an egg and preheated honey. Thoroughly beat the ingredients with a mixer or a wreath.
   
   
   DepositPhotos
3. In the egg-oil mixture, add flour with spices and mix thoroughly. Note that during kneading, the dough should acquire an intense brown color.
   
   
   DepositPhotos
4. Mix dough with your hands and send it to the refrigerator for 1.5-2 hours. Chilled dough is much better amenable to further processing.
   
   
   DepositPhotos
5. Dough thinly roll, better immediately on parchment paper, and then with the help of special forms or paper templates cut out the desired figures.
   
   
   DepositPhotos
6. Bake cookies for 5-7 minutes in an oven heated to 200 ° C. The cookie is very thin and can burn in the blink of an eye! Wait for the dough to change its color slightly and quickly take the gingerbread out of the oven.
   
   
   DepositPhotos
7. It can be decorated if desired. gingerbread glaze. To do this, slightly beat 20 g of protein (1/2 protein from 1 chicken egg), gradually adding 100 g of powdered sugar. Transfer the glaze into a pastry envelope or syringe, and then boldly draw on the surface of the cookies.
   
   
   DepositPhotos

Gentle, crumbly, fragrant cookies are what you need for a good mood on the pre-holiday days! In addition, cookies are stored for a very long time. If you wish, you can bake gingerbread with interest and package in beautiful containers - an original, tasty and truly useful gift for family and friends. Agreed?

Do you have a recipe for Christmas cookies? And if not, don't forget to bookmark ours.