For several years now, on New Year's and Christmas, I have been baking spicy cookies. The aroma of cinnamon, cardamom, ginger and cloves fills not only our apartment, but also the neighboring ones. Immediately, a festive mood appears, and I want to decorate the finished cookies in the form of Christmas trees, snowflakes and bears as soon as possible. And then put them in a beautiful gift wrap🎁, tie them with a bright ribbon and give them to those closest to you. It is not the first New Year that these cookies fall into the hands of both adults and children, uniting more and more people. This means that spicy cookies not only give a sense of celebration and magic, but also connect people with an invisible spicy thread✨. #Christmas
Ingredients: sugar, honey, soda, butter, eggs, flour, spice cookie mix OR ground ginger -1.5 tsp; ground cinnamon - 1 tsp; ground cloves - 1 tsp; ground allspice - 1 tsp
Cooking method:
Dip the sugar, honey, butter and spice mixture or spices indicated in the ingredients into a small saucepan. Bring to a boil and remove from heat.
Now add the baking soda and mix. Foam should form.
Place the egg and add the sifted flour. Knead a soft, elastic dough.
Divide the dough into 2 parts. We remove one to the side (you can cover it so that it does not dry out), roll the second into a thin layer. * Crispy biscuits are obtained from a thin layer, crisp-soft from a layer, slightly thicker. Cut out the cookies with the help of various figures and put them on a baking sheet covered with parchment. * If you want to hang cookies on the tree, you can make holes for ribbons or threads.
We bake in an oven preheated to 170 degrees for 12-14 minutes. But sometimes 10 is enough. It is important not to overdo it, otherwise the cookies will burn.
The cookies have cooled down, now you can decorate. For this I use a ready-made frosting that is sold in grocery stores. * Used cherry and white. Cherry interrupts the spicy smell of cookies, so I opt for the usual white one.
This makes 2 trays of garnished gingerbread cookies.
Now we collect gift sets. Cut out and glue a few small ones from a large gift bag. Put the required number of cookies there and tie the bags with ribbons. Optionally, you can attach tags with names and wishes.
Happy New Year and Christmas. Give spicy cookies to friends and family with pleasure! Thanks for the recipe to the site: vkusnyblog.ru❤!