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Servings: 45 PCS

Gingerbread Cookies with Icing

Classic gingerbread cookies from childhood
Author: Anette Søstrøm Asmussen
Keyword: Baking, Cake, Christmas, Christmas Baking, cookies
Prep Time: 2 hours 40 minutes
Cook Time: 10 minutes

Ingredients

  • 175 gram Brown sugar
  • 125 gram Butter
  • 200 gram Syrup Preferably dark
  • 700 gram Wheat Flour
  • 1.5 gram Hartshorn
  • 1.8 gram Ground ginger
  • 2.6 gram Cinnamon
  • 1 Egg
  • 1 pinch Salt Preferably a good salt like Maldon
  • 1 egg white
  • 270 gram Powdered Sugar
  • 60 gram White Wine Vinegar

Instructions

Gingerbread Cookies

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  • Put butter, brown sugar, syrup in a pot and melt it together into a homogeneous mass over low heat.
  • Set the melted mixture aside and let it cool down until it's lukewarm.
  • Put flour, salt, ammonium bicarbonate, ginger, and cinnamon in a bowl and mix together.
  • Add the cooled mixture to the flour mixture along with an egg. Knead together into a firm and smooth dough.
  • Let the dough rest in the refrigerator for 2 hours.
  • Preheat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius (356 degrees Fahrenheit) conventional oven,
  • Roll out the dough to a thickness of 3-5 millimeters and cut out Christmas cookies.
  • Bake the cookies for 7-10 minutes, in the middle of the oven.
  • Let the baked cookies cool on a wire rack before decorating.
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  • Whisk egg whites, powdered sugar, and white wine vinegar together into a firm and stiff meringue.
  • Put the finished icing into a piping bag and cut a small hole in the bag.
  • Now it's just time to decorate and eat.
  • Gingerbread Cookies with Icing

Notes

Optionally, spruce up your icing with a bit of food coloring and sprinkle with some funfetti or sugar pearls.
Gingerbread Cookies with Icing