Recipe #6 Ginger Bread Cookies

Merry Christmas!!… Treat yourself with some Ginger bread cookies this season

Ingredients

·      170 grams of lightly salted butter (NutriLite Butter)

·      320 grams of powdered sugar

·      Zest of 1 orange

·      500 grams of Flour (maida)

·      1 ½ tsp baking powder

·      ½ tsp baking soda

·      1 tblsp ground dry ginger

·      ½ tsp ground nutmeg

·      2 tblsp ground cinnamon

·      ½ tsp ground cloves

·      ½ tsp salt

·      2 eggs

·      140 grams brown sugar

·      Juice of 1 lemon

Method

-Cream butter and powdered sugar until all incorporated and smooth. Add orange zest.

-Using an electric beater, beat in 1 egg at a time, then add lemon juice, sift in dry ginger, cloves, nutmeg and cinnamon. Beat until all incorporated (for 2 mins)

-Sift in ½ the quantity of flour, ½ tsp of salt and fold it using a wooden spoon. Add the remaining half of the flour and knead it with your hand to dough like consistency and knead it until it does not stick to the sides of the bowl (If a little sticky then add 2 tblsp of flour)

-Wrap in cling film and refrigerate for 1 hour

-Using a rolling pin, roll the dough on a well-floured kitchen platform and roll it to ½ a cm thickness. 

-Pre heat the oven at 170deg c

-Using cookie cutters, give the desirable shapes to the dough

-Place it on a buttered tray and bake it at 170 deg c for 10 mins or until golden brown

-Decorate the cookies with white chocolate icing or royal icing (Royal icing recipe in the next post!!)

Happy Baking!!