Recipe: Perfect gingerbread cookies

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Cut out cookies with desired cutter-- the ginger bread man is our favorite of course. Remove cookie sheet from oven and allow the cookies to stand until the cookies are firm enough to move to a wire rack. In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, spices, baking soda, and salt; set aside. You can have gingerbread cookies using 9 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of gingerbread cookies

1. You need 1 of For the dough.
2. Prepare 350 grams of flour.
3. It's 1 tsp of bicarbonated soda.
4. It's 2 tsp of ground ginger.
5. It's 1 tsp of cinnamon.
6. It's 125 grams of butter.
7. You need 175 grams of soft brown sugar.
8. You need 4 tbsp of golden syrup.
9. Prepare 1 of egg.

With an electric mixer, beat butter and brown sugar until smooth. Sift the flour, baking soda, cinnamon, ginger, allspice, cloves, salt and pepper through a wire sieve into. Combine the flour, ginger, baking soda, cinnamon, cloves and salt; gradually add to creamed mixture and mix well. While ginger is often thought of as a winter baking flavor, we've found that ginger pairs well with various fruits, too.

gingerbread cookies step by step

1. Sift together the flour, bicarbonate of soda, ginger and cinnamon and pour into the bowl of a food processor. Add the butter and blend until the mix looks like breadcrumbs. Stir in the sugar..
2. Lightly beat the egg and golden syrup together, add to the food processor and pulse until the mixture clumps together. Tip the dough out, knead briefly until smooth, wrap in clingfim and leave to chill in the fridge for 15 minutes..
3. Preheat the oven to 180C/350F/Gas 4. Line two baking trays with greaseproof paper..
4. Roll the dough out to a 0.5cm/¼in thickness on a lightly floured surface. Using cutters, cut out the gingerbread men shapes and place on the baking tray, leaving a gap between them..
5. Bake for 12-15 minutes, or until lightly golden-brown. Leave on the tray for 10 minutes and then move to a wire rack to finish cooling. When cooled decorate with the writing icing and cake decorations..

Ginger and peach is an especially wonderful combination; try gingerbread cookies served with fresh sliced peaches, or a peach crumble topped with gingerbread crumbs. Gingerbread cookie recipes all start the same and mine comes from my mom. To her recipe, I add a little more molasses and increase the amount of spice favors (cinnamon, ginger, cloves, and allspice). I like a gingerbread cookies with A LOT of flavor and I know you will too. Because of the added sticky sweetener (molasses), I add a little more.