Hello everybody, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, gingerbread biscuits. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Gingerbread biscuits is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look fantastic. Gingerbread biscuits is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have gingerbread biscuits using 13 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Gingerbread biscuits:
- Prepare 100 grams butter
- Get 200 grams brown sugar (1 cup firmly packed)
- Prepare 250 ml treacle (1 cup)
- Make ready 2 eggs, lightly wisked
- Make ready 600 grams plain flour (4 cups)
- Make ready 150 grams self raising flour
- Take 1 tablespoon ground ginger
- Get 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
- Get 1 1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
- Get 1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
- Make ready 2 egg whites (for icing)
- Take 420 grams pure icing sugar (2 2/3 cups) (for icing)
- Prepare 1 teaspoon fresh lemon juice (for icing)
Instructions to make Gingerbread biscuits:
- Place butter, brown sugar and treacle in a saucepan over low - medium heat. Stir untill butter melts and sugar dissolves. Cool for 10 mins
- Combine butter mixture and and 2 eggs (not the 2 egg whites) in a large bowl, sift in flours, ginger, cinnamon, cloves and bicarbonate of soda over the butter mixture. Stir until well combined, kneed on a floured surface until smooth. Shape into a disc, cover with glad wrap and refrigerate for 1 hour.
- Preheat oven to 180°C. Line 2 baking trays (i line 4 trays personally) with baking paper. Roll out dough in portions to 5mm thick. Cut with cutters and and place on lined trays. Cook for 5-7 mins or untill golden.
- Cool on tray for 5 mins before transferring to wire racks. Repeat with remaining dough.
- Icing: Place egg whites in a bowl, use wooden spoon to lightly beat the egg whites until foamy, sift icing sugar over the egg and stir until smooth. Add lemon juice and stir until well combined. Put mixture in piping bag with desired nozzle.
- Optional: - Add M&M minis to the biscuits with icing sugar
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