Recipe: Delicious Gingerbread Biscuits

Gingerbread Biscuits. Line two large baking trays with baking parchment. In a saucepan over a low heat, melt the butter, sugar, fresh ginger and golden syrup and leave to cool. These cookies are formed by cookie cutters. By using a toothpick to make a hole in the top of the cookie, you can hang them on the tree. You can also make paint out of egg yolks, and food coloring to make them more colorful--use as much food coloring as needed to create desired hue.

Add egg and vanilla and beat until combined. Ginger biscuits are one of Britain's favorite biscuits and we have been eating them for centuries. They make the perfect partner to a hot cup of tea as once cooled after cooking, they become super-hard, so the perfect dunking biscuit. You can cook Gingerbread Biscuits using 8 ingredients and 15 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Gingerbread Biscuits

1. Prepare 4 tbsp of Golden Syrup.
2. Prepare 300 g of Plan Flour.
3. You need 1 of tsb Bicarbonate Of Soda.
4. It's 1 1/2 tsp of Ground Ginger.
5. Prepare 1 1/2 tsp of mixed spice.
6. You need 100 g of Unsalted Butter (softened & diced).
7. It's 150 g of Soft Dark Brown Sugar.
8. It's 1 of Egg.

The ginger in the biscuit is also lovely for soothing a tummy upset, especially one associated with car sickness. Sift the flour, baking soda, cinnamon, ginger, allspice, cloves, salt and pepper through a wire sieve into. 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).

Gingerbread Biscuits step by step

1. Preheat the oven to 190c (375f/ Gas 5)..
2. Heat the golden syrup until it liquefies, then leave to cool..
3. Sift the flour, bicarbonate of soda and spices into a bowl. Then add the butter..
4. Rub together using your fingertips until the mixture looks like breadcrumbs..
5. Add the sugar to the breadcrumb looking mixture and miss well..
6. Beat the egg into the cooled syrup..
7. Make a well in the flour mixture..
8. Pour in the syrup mix and mix together until you get a rough dough..
9. Lightly flour the surface and briefly knead the dough..
10. Once kneaded, add more flour to the work surface and roll out the dough 5mm (1/4in) thick..
11. Use a cutter to cut out the shapes and pop onto a baking tray. For the gingerbread people, add small cut raisins for eyes, nose and buttons. You can also add sugar sprinkles too!.
12. Mix the off it’s of dough and re roll until all the dough has been used..
13. Bake for 10 - 12 mins until golden brown..
14. Once baked, transfer onto a wire rack.
15. Let cool and then decorate!.

I like a gingerbread cookies with A LOT of flavor and I know you will too. Beat in the egg, then stir in the water and molasses. Gradually stir the sifted ingredients into the molasses mixture. 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.