How to Cook Perfect 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. Gingerbread is a great thing to make at Christmas, these simple gingerbread biscuits look impressive hanging from the tree or given as gifts to family and friends. Making gingerbread men cookies is a must-do holiday tradition and brings joy to people of all ages! These tasty gingerbread figures are even better with a layer of Nutella® hazelnut spread.

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. The ginger in the biscuit is also lovely for soothing a tummy upset, especially one associated with car sickness. You can cook Gingerbread Biscuits using 13 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Gingerbread Biscuits

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

Add egg and vanilla and beat until combined. 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. 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..
2. Remove from heat, allow to cool for 2-3 min and then beat in the egg..
3. Sift together flour, cocao, baking powder and salt, and stir in to the butter mix..
4. Roll the dough into a 5cm thick sausage and slice into 1cm disks.
5. Bake at 180°C for 15 minutes.

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.