Shaped Gingerbread Cookies
Aromatic cookies scented with ginger and cinnamon, optionally decorated with chocolate.
Ingredients
Unsalted butter
65 g
Powdered sugar
75 g
Honey
30 g
Egg yolk
1
Cake flour
175 g
Baking soda
1/4 tsp
Ginger powder
1 tbsp
Cinnamon powder
1 tsp
Melted dark chocolate (for decoration)
to taste
Melted white chocolate (for decoration)
to taste
Instructions
1
Step 1
Place the unsalted butter, powdered sugar, and honey in a bowl, and use a whisk to beat briefly until soft.
2
Step 2
Add the egg yolk and beat until evenly combined.
3
Step 3
Sift the cake flour, baking soda, ginger powder, and cinnamon powder together, add to the butter mixture, and gently fold together with a plastic spatula using a cutting motion.
4
Step 4
Place the mixed dough in a plastic bag, roll it out to about 0.3 cm thick, and refrigerate. Remove the chilled and hardened dough sheet, cut open both sides of the plastic bag, use various small animal and doll cookie cutters to cut out shapes, and arrange them flat on a baking tray. Bake in the oven at 175°C for 15–18 minutes.
5
Step 5
Once the cookies have cooled completely, decorate them with melted dark and white chocolate to create your favorite patterns or lines.
