Gingerbread Cookies
The Christmas biscuits cut into men, stars and trees — a dark, spiced dough of golden syrup, brown sugar, ginger and cinnamon that rolls cleanly and holds its shape, decorated with piped royal icing.
Ingredients
Ingredients
- 350 g plain flour, plus extra for dusting
- 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
- 2 tsp ground ginger
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1/4 tsp ground cloves
- 1 pinch salt
- 100 g butter, cubed
- 150 g soft dark brown sugar
- 4 tbsp golden syrup
- 1 egg
- 1 egg white, for the icing
- 200 g icing sugar, for the icing
- 1 tsp lemon juice
Nutrition (estimated)
high confidenceRecipe total: 3675 kcal · P 47.1g · C 674.5g · F 90.8g
Estimated from 13 of 13 ingredients
Approximate estimate, calculated from the ingredients.
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Steps
Steps
- 1Gently melt the butter, brown sugar and golden syrup together in a pan, stirring until smooth, then cool for 10 minutes.
- 2Whisk the flour, bicarbonate of soda, spices and salt in a large bowl.
- 3Beat the egg into the cooled butter mixture, pour it into the flour and mix into a smooth dough. Flatten into two discs, wrap and chill for 30 minutes.
- 4Heat the oven to 180°C (160°C fan) and line two trays with baking paper.
- 5Roll the dough on a floured worktop to 5 mm thick and cut out shapes. Re-roll the trimmings until the dough is used up.
- 6Bake for 9–11 minutes, until just firm at the edges and slightly darker. Cool on the trays for 5 minutes, then on a rack.
- 7For the icing, whisk the egg white with the icing sugar and lemon juice for 3–4 minutes, until thick, glossy and holding a peak.
- 8Pipe the icing onto the cold biscuits through a fine nozzle and leave for 2 hours to harden. They keep for two weeks in a tin.
Questions and answers
How long does Gingerbread Cookies take to make?
About 80 minutes: 60 min prep and 20 min cooking.
What ingredients do you need for Gingerbread Cookies?
13 ingredients: plain flour, bicarbonate of soda, ground ginger, ground cinnamon, ground cloves, salt, butter, soft dark brown sugar, golden syrup, egg, egg white, icing sugar and 1 more.
How many servings does this Gingerbread Cookies recipe make?
24 servings. The servings buttons above the ingredients rescale every amount.
How many calories are in a serving of Gingerbread Cookies?
About 153 kcal, with 2 g protein, 28.1 g carbohydrate and 3.8 g fat. This is an estimate from the ingredients, not a lab analysis.
Which diets does this Gingerbread Cookies recipe suit?
It is vegetarian.
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