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Gingerbread Cookies

Course Desserts
Cuisine Fusion
Author Felix (Simply Trini Cooking)

Ingredients

  • 3 cups all-purpose flour
  • 4-6 tsp ground ginger
  • 1 tsp. ground cinnamon
  • 2 tsp. baking soda
  • 1/2 tsp. nutmeg
  • 1 cup chilled unsalted butter
  • 1 1/2 cups brown sugar
  • 2 medium eggs
  • 4 tbsp. honey
  • 1/2 tsp. vanilla extract
  • Icing:
  • 1/2 cup powdered sugar
  • approximately 3 tbsp water and about 1 tsp. unsweetened ginger tea powder
  • 1/2 tsp. vanilla
  • Candy and sprinkles for decorating

Instructions

  • Preheat the oven at 350 degrees F. Prepare the baking trays in advance. Line them with parchment paper or use non-stick cooking spray.
  • Sift the flour in a large bowl. Add the ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg and baking soda.
  • Mix the ingredients well.
  • Next, cut the butter into small chunks.
  • Then, rub it into the flour until mixture looks like breadcrumbs.
  • Mix in the sugar.
  • Beat the eggs in a small bowl. Mix in the honey and vanilla.
  • Add it to the flour.
  • Mix together and form into a smooth dough.
  • Dust a surface and a rolling pin with a little flour. Roll out the dough with the rolling pin. Roll out until 1/2″ thick. Next, cut into desired shapes. The scraps can be again squeezed together into a ball and rolled out again and cut to make more shapes. Here are the shapes I used to cut my cookies.
  • Place the shapes onto well lined trays. Bake for 12-15 minutes until golden. Remove after a few minutes and allow to cool on a wire rack before decorating.

Notes

I wanted to make an icing that also had a bit of a ginger taste. So I first heated the water and added the unsweetened ginger tea powder to water. Mix well to dissolve. Then cool a bit before use. You want the water warm; not too hot.
When you are making your icing add 1 tbsp of ginger water at a time to the icing sugar. Add the vanilla. Keep adding 1 tbsp of warm ginger water until you get the desired thickness for your icing. Then add the icing to the cookies. Sprinkle and decorate as you desire. I did not want all the cookies glazed. Not everyone likes icing. However, I noticed these cookies are mildly sweet and the icing added an extra sweet flavour.