Gingerbread cookies became known in the 19th century. Its spicy taste and aroma come from Sweden, where it has become a popular Christmas dish. Knowing the gingerbread cookie recipe, for the New Year you can cook a great dish decorated according to your exclusive design. Making gingerbread cookies can be a new tradition in your family.
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You will need
- - flour 2 tbsp.;
- - 2 tsp ground ginger;
- - 1 tsp cinnamon
- - 1 tsp ground cloves;
- - 0.5 tsp baking powder;
- - 100 g butter;
- - 1 egg;
- - 1 tbsp. Sahara.
Instruction manual
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Put the necessary products on the table. Oil and eggs should be at room temperature.
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Grate the butter. So it will be easier to mix with sugar, a glass of which must be mixed in the oil. Make gingerbread cookie dough in a bowl.
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Add 1 egg and continue to interfere. Ideal if you have a mixer on hand. Then you can use it at a low speed, but you can do with an ordinary whisk or fork. Stir thoroughly for 5 minutes.
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Leave the mixture of butter, eggs and sugar to rest for 10 minutes at room temperature.
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Now add 2 cups flour to the oil mixture through a sieve. You can not use a sieve, but with it the dough will turn out with a more delicate structure.
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After flour, baking powder, ginger, cinnamon and cloves are added.
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The dough is thoroughly kneaded. It should be a little sticky in the end. Knead it best with your hands. It is thanks to the heat emanating from the hands that the dough for ginger cookies will turn out to have a uniform consistency.
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Roll the dough into a layer with a thickness of not more than 5 mm. If you want to make gingerbread, then the thickness of the dough can be increased. But remember, the thinner you roll the layer, the crunchier the gingerbread cookie will turn out.
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If you have cookie cutters, use them to make curly pastries. If there are no molds at hand, then you can embed gingerbread cookies with an ordinary knife. You can choose any shape and size.
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Preheat the oven at 180 ° C. In convection mode, in order for ginger cookies to cook, just hold it in the oven for 10 minutes. Bake at an average level.
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After cooking, place the cookies on a flat surface. While it is hot, it is soft and can be deformed. But as soon as the gingerbread cookie cools down, it will get its crisp taste.
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Garnish gingerbread cookies to your liking. The classic way of decorating is icing. To prepare it, beat 1 egg white until foam, and then pour 150 g of powdered sugar through a sieve. To make the glaze shiny, add a few drops of lemon juice. If you want to make a glaze of a certain color, then add food coloring to the mass.
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Garnish gingerbread cookies with icing through a pastry syringe or bag. To prevent the icing from spreading, first draw a contour of the drawing, only after it dries fill the inside.
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If you don’t have dry ginger on hand, you can just grate fresh on a fine grater and add it to the dough.
Useful advice
If you do not want to ginger cookies with ice, you can just sprinkle them with powdered sugar. And you can sprinkle cookies before baking poppy seeds.