AuthorPooja SundariaCategoryBaking, SnacksHello beautiful folks! Happy Sunday morning 🙂 I hope you all have enjoyed your magical Christmas.
Gingerbread man cookie is another treasure from Christmas platter, a timeless classic that is deliciously flavoured with lots of spices, brown sugar, butter, molasses. Easy to make and always supple.
My munchkin likes to start with its head first and her reaction were amazing and hilarious when she said "OH NOOOOO". She does not eat much and she doesn't like cookies too. But, this lil man, touch her heart and she ate it. I love her mysterious smile when she saw it.
Well, Christmas is incomplete without Gingerbread man cookies. Cookies are best when these are in deep ginger colour and spicy in flavour. I have used dark brown sugar with orange zest. I love this way, but, you can always mix the flavour according to your preference. This is my kind of gingerbread man cookies and decorating these cookies is a fun part for my munchkin. She helps me a lot.
It made my Christmas so beautiful when she arranged the cookies for the shot.
When it comes to making their lil sweetheart, it's very easy. Cream the butter and sugar, egg or cream, vanilla, next is molasses. Then mix the dry ingredient with spices. [Voila] roll out and cut your cookies by cookie cutter and bake. After baking decorate your Gingerman cookies as you like with simple icing or royal icing. It's totally up to you.
These cookies loaded with a generous quantity of ginger, cloves and cinnamon powder with orange zest. When you eat, every bite is going to start bursting flavours in your mouth.
Every cookie has a secret ingredient, mine cookies having black paper and orange zest with flaky sea salt.
So, enjoy your Gingerman cookies with your favourite beverage while sitting on the sofa and watching your favourite show.
I love the scents of winter and it all about spices. Love the winter 🙂
I am addicted to Gingerman cookies. I mean that seriously. If there are Gingerman, I will devour them.
Happy weekend 🙂
Ingredients
Instructions
Preheat oven at 180 degrees
In a big bowl, combine butter, brown sugar and maple syrup. Whisk well.
To this mixture add all the dry ingredients – all-purpose flour, wheat flour, baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon powder, dry ginger powder, orange zest, flaky sea salt and all spice powder . Mix it well with the help of a spatula.
Add milk gradually and knead into a stiff dough. Wrap the dough in a cling wrap. Chill in the refrigerator for at least 35 minutes.
Remove the dough from refrigerator and keep it on room temperature for 5 minutes.
Remove the cling wrap and then divide the dough into 2 equal portions with a knife.
Line a parchment paper on a flat surface and place one portion of the dough and press slightly with your palm. Cover it with another parchment paper and start rolling. Roll out into a big round of medium thickness.
Remove the top parchment paper and cut out the cookies using the gingerbread man cookie cutter. Use a flat spatula to lift the cookies and arrange them on baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
Add the scrapes to the remaining portion of the dough and combine well. Roll it in the same manner and prepare the cookies.
Bake the cookies in a preheated oven for about 10-12 minutes on 180 degrees Celsius. Then transfer them on wire rack to cool completely. These cookies will be soft when you take them out of the oven, but they will turn hard once cooled. So do not over bake.
Once cooled completely, decorate your cookies with icing or royal icing
Store them in an air tight container
Ingredients
Directions
Preheat oven at 180 degrees
In a big bowl, combine butter, brown sugar and maple syrup. Whisk well.
To this mixture add all the dry ingredients – all-purpose flour, wheat flour, baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon powder, dry ginger powder, orange zest, flaky sea salt and all spice powder . Mix it well with the help of a spatula.
Add milk gradually and knead into a stiff dough. Wrap the dough in a cling wrap. Chill in the refrigerator for at least 35 minutes.
Remove the dough from refrigerator and keep it on room temperature for 5 minutes.
Remove the cling wrap and then divide the dough into 2 equal portions with a knife.
Line a parchment paper on a flat surface and place one portion of the dough and press slightly with your palm. Cover it with another parchment paper and start rolling. Roll out into a big round of medium thickness.
Remove the top parchment paper and cut out the cookies using the gingerbread man cookie cutter. Use a flat spatula to lift the cookies and arrange them on baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
Add the scrapes to the remaining portion of the dough and combine well. Roll it in the same manner and prepare the cookies.
Bake the cookies in a preheated oven for about 10-12 minutes on 180 degrees Celsius. Then transfer them on wire rack to cool completely. These cookies will be soft when you take them out of the oven, but they will turn hard once cooled. So do not over bake.
Once cooled completely, decorate your cookies with icing or royal icing
Store them in an air tight container