Gingerbread cookie “Gingerbread Man”

With the advent of cold weather and the approach of the main winter holidays one of the most desirable treats on the table is gingerbread cookie. It warms with its spicy taste and fills the house with fragrant aroma, collecting for the tea of all households. Attract everyone family members, you can and the process of cutting cookies from dough and decorating it. And so that the cookies bake evenly, do not Remember to swap pans while baking. Beautiful gingerbread cookies can not only be served at the table, but also presented in as a lovely, beautifully designed gift for friends or коллегам. Time: 1 hour.Difficulty: easy Quantity: 72 curly cookies In recipes volumetric containers are used in volume: 1 cup (tbsp.) – 240 ml. 3/4 cups (st.) – 180 ml. 1/2 cup (tbsp.) – 120 ml. 1/3 cup (Art.) – 80 ml. 1/4 cup (st.) – 60 ml. 1 tablespoon (tbsp) – 15 ml. 1 teaspoon (tsp) – 5 ml.

Ingredients for the recipe:

Orange base

• 165 gr. lightly salted butter, softened
• 1 and 2/3 Art. Sahara
• 1 zest of orange

Dry ingredients

• 4 tbsp. premium flour + 0.5 tbsp. additionally for work, by the need
• 1.5 tsp baking powder
• 0.5 tsp soda
• 1 tbsp. l ground dry ginger
• 0.5 tsp ground nutmeg
• 0.5 tsp ground allspice
• 2 tsp ground cinnamon
• 1/4 tsp ground cloves
• 0.5 tsp coarse salt

Liquid ingredients

• 2 eggs
• 0.5 tbsp. dark molasses
• Juice 1 Lemon

Orange glaze

• 1 tbsp. powdered sugar
• Finely grated zest of 1 orange
• 1 – 2 tbsp. l freshly squeezed orange juice
• 0.5 tsp orange liquor
• 1/4 tsp light corn syrup

Recipes with similar ingredients: premium flour, ginger ground, nutmeg, allspice, cloves, cinnamon

Recipe preparation:

1. Basis: put in a mixer bowl with a nozzle with a spatula butter, sugar and orange zest and beat until smooth consistency of 5-8 minutes.
2. Dry Ingredients: Sift into a medium-sized bowl flour, baking powder, soda, dry ginger, nutmeg, allspice pepper, cinnamon, cloves and salt. Stir and set aside. Liquid ingredients: in another bowl, beat the eggs, molasses and lemon the juice.
3. Preheat the oven to 175 ° C.
4. When the butter mixes with sugar, reduce the speed of the mixer and add dry ingredients. Add the egg mixture and when everything mix, remove the bowl from the mixer. Divide the dough for biscuits in half. Press one half of the dough between 2 sheets wax paper or cling film and refrigerate for 15 minutes. Repeat the same with the second half of the test. Cooled down the dough will be easier to roll. Also when rolling you will have only one half of the dough is heated.
5. Sprinkle lightly on a flat surface. Sprinkle also flour rolling pin and gently roll one half of the dough into a layer about 1 cm thick. Lightly sprinkle cookie cuttings with flour and cut out the figures, leaving as few scraps as possible.
6. Using a metal spatula, gently transfer the cookies over one on a baking sheet (cookies should be the same size). Then repeat the same with the second half of the dough and shift the cookies on the other baking sheet. These cookies may bake a little when baked. spread out. Lay out figures at a short distance from each other friend. It’s better to spread a little cookies on 3 baking sheets than end-to-end on 2 baking sheets. Bake to the ruddy edges, 8-10 minutes, turning the baking sheets half a turn in the middle of cooking.
   

   Cooking tips

   Do you have any trimmed dough? Roll them into a ball, flatten and put in fridge. The cookies from this dough can be tougher, since he kneaded longer.

7. Plain orange frosting

   Why not garnish the gingerbread cookies? In a medium bowl size, add all ingredients and beat to mix. If a the glaze is too thick, add a little orange juice or water. Put icing in a pastry bag with a nozzle star and squeeze it between two figures of cookies. Neatly press 2 cookies with icing in the middle.

8. Culinary Decorating Tip

   Festive gingerbread cookies – these cookies turn out so beautiful, that they can be served as they are! I love springerle, German anise flavored cookies for graceful molds (and carved rolling pins) used for its manufacture. I baked such cookies with embossed image using springerle molds, and The result was amazing. This is the type of cookie that makes people will be touched for a long time by his sight before they eat half a plate за раз!Просто присыпьтеdecorative molds (or rolling pin) with flour, slightly flicking surplus. Roll the dough into a very thin layer (1 – 0.5 thick cm.). Cut or roll out the dough using molds and walk around them with a sharp knife to pull out the figures. Spread the cookies a short distance apart a greased baking sheet with sprinkled anise seeds on it, and bake for 6-8 minutes. Do not use molds? Scoop the dough with a teaspoon and roll the balls. Hold the balls on a greased baking sheet or press the edges with the tines of a fork, to get ridges. Bake until the edges are browned, 10-12 minutes.