Name: Gingerbread Biscuits
Prep time: 14 min
Cook time: 2 h
Total time: 2 h
Ingredients: 250 g plain flour; 30 g cocao; 3/4 tsp baking powder; Pinch salt; 150 g butter; 1 thumb ginger root; 2 tsp ground ginger; 3 tsp cinnamon; 1/2 tsp ground cloves; 1/2 tsp nutmeg; 100 g demarera sugar; 25 g maple syrup; 1 medium egg

Gingerbread Biscuits. Using a biscuit cutter cut out the shapes. The biscuits won't be firm but will harden when left to cool outside the. 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. You can have Gingerbread Biscuits using 13 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Gingerbread Biscuits

Prepare 250 g of plain flour.
Prepare 30 g of cocao.
Prepare 3/4 tsp of baking powder.
Prepare Pinch of salt.
You need 150 g of butter.
Prepare 1 of thumb ginger root.
Prepare 2 tsp of ground ginger.
It's 3 tsp of cinnamon.
You need 1/2 tsp of ground cloves.
Prepare 1/2 tsp of nutmeg.
Prepare 100 g of demarera sugar.
You need 25 g of maple syrup.
You need 1 of medium egg.

Beat in the egg, then stir in the water and molasses. Gradually stir the sifted ingredients into the molasses mixture. 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 instructions

Melt the butter in a pan and then add finely diced ginger root,sugar and syrup. Warm gently for a few minutes, then add remaining spices..
Remove from heat, allow to cool for 2-3 min and then beat in the egg..
Sift together flour, cocao, baking powder and salt, and stir in to the butter mix..
Roll the dough into a 5cm thick sausage and slice into 1cm disks.
Bake at 180°C for 15 minutes.

I like a gingerbread cookies with A LOT of flavor and I know you will too. White Chocolate Kissed Gingerbread Cookies: Prepare and refrigerate dough as directed. I must have been using potent powdered ginger: unlike other reviewers I found my cookies to have a hot ginger taste. 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.