Gingerbread cookies have always been a holiday decoration, especially Christmas. They were put on the table, presented to relatives and friends, they decorated the Christmas tree. Gingerbread cookies are baked with different spices and fillings, chocolate or milk, coated with glaze or marzipan. But honey is the most beloved and popular.
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You will need
- For the test
- • 1 cup of sugar
- • 2 eggs
- • 3 tablespoons of honey
- • 1 teaspoon of soda
- • 3 cups flour
- • 125 grams of margarine or butter
- For glaze
- • 5 tablespoons of sugar
- • 2 tablespoons of milk
- For filling
- • jam
- • boiled condensed milk
- Mixer, molds for the dough.
Instruction manual
1
Take sugar, eggs, honey, soda and mix, preferably with a mixer. Add soft margarine or butter and mix well again.
2
Put the resulting mixture in a water bath for approximately 10 minutes. Do not forget to constantly stir.
3
Remove the mixture from the heat and add 1 cup sifted flour. Mix the air mass gently and let cool.
4
Pour the remaining flour into a warm dough. Stir with a fork, then knead the dough well with your hands.
5
Roll out the dough into a thin layer, outline gingerbread cookies and spread the filling.
6
Roll out the second layer of dough and cover them with the first with the filling. Cut gingerbread cookies with a cookie cutter.
7
Put the gingerbread cookies on a greased leaf and bake in the oven for 10 to 15 minutes at 200 ° C.
8
While the gingerbread cookies are baked, you can cook the icing. Pour sugar in a saucepan, pour milk and put on low heat. Bring the mixture to a boil and cook for 5 to 7 minutes, stirring constantly.
9
Remove the gingerbread from the oven and immediately coat with glaze. Gingerbread cookies need to cool well, and the glaze to dry.
note
You do not need to extinguish the soda in the gingerbread dough. Gingerbread cookies are best made from warm dough. It is more elastic and does not crack when rolled.
Useful advice
Gingerbread cookies are best cut with the filling, without pinching the edges. Otherwise, the cakes will not bake evenly and the edges will dry out.