Gingerbread Cookies Recipe

February 10, 2022

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February 10, 2022 By Aarthi 2 Comments

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Delicious gingerbread cookies with step by step pictures. These are perfect for christmas and fun to decorate with kids.

Gingerbread Cookies

Gingerbread cookies is one recipe which i wanted to bake for a long time. Finally made this year and it was so much fun making them and decorating time. I just went for a plain white icing and nothing fancy. You can take your own time and decorate it as you like.

I am sure this will be fun recipe for you to bake with your kids. They will look making it and decorating it.

Ingredients for Gingerbread

All Purpose Flour / Maida
Brown Sugar or Demerrara Sugar
Honey
Unsalted Soft Butter
Baking Powder & Baking Soda
Ginger Powder, Cinnamon Powder, Cloves Powder, Nutmeg Powder

Gingerbread Cookies Preparation

Take butter, brown sugar, honey in a bowl and whisk well till creamy.
Add in baking powder, baking soda, salt and spices and whisk well.
Now add in flour and shape it into a dough.
Wrap it in cling wrap and chill in fridge for at least 1 to 2 hours. Preheat oven to 180 degree C / 360 degree F.
Now roll this between two sheets of plastic wrap and cut using gingerbread shape cutter.
Arrange it in a baking pan which is lined with parchment paper.
Bake for 10 mins.
Now remove from oven and cool completely.
Now make icing, take icing sugar and milk in a bowl and whisk till thick and creamy. Pour this in a ziploc bag and snip off the edge. Decorate the cookie as you like and decorate with sugar silver balls.
Enjoy.

Hope you will give this a try and let me know how it turns out for you.

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Prep Time 15 mins

Cook Time 15 mins

Resting Time 1 hr

Total Time 1 hr 30 mins

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Servings 20 cookies

Ingredients

For Cookies:

For Icing:

Instructions

Pictorial:

take ingredients for cookies

take soft butter in a bowl

add brown sugar

add in honey

baking powder, baking soda, salt and spices

shape it into a dough

place it in a sheet of plastic wrap

cover it up and chill in fridge for 1 to 2 hours

i used the plain gingerbread cutter and the unique cutter which i got few years back

now take the dough out, place it between two sheets of plastic wrap

roll it out

peel off the top layer of plastic wrap

cut out cookies

arrange it in a baking pan, place this in fridge for 10 mins if the cookies are too warm

bake till done

remove to cooling rack and cool completely

take icing sugar in a bowl

make it into a thick paste like

spoon this into ziploc bag

cut off the edge

decorate as you like

About Aarthi

Over the past few years I’ve been on a mission to find and create recipes that I can make from scratch. I hope you enjoy the recipes on this blog as they are tried and true from my kitchen to yours!

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Gingerbread Cookies Recipe