Gingerbread recipe + icing for decoration

Christmas is almost here! And baking and decorating some gingerbread is so much fun for all the family! So today I want to share with you my own recipe, with some extra tips as usual. At the end of the video I'll show you how to prepare a papper cone so you can decorate your gingermen with your favourite colours.

How much do you like gingerbread? Let me know in the comments!

And now, let's have a look at the video recipe here.

Ingredients:

170gr butter

190gr muscovado sugar

100gr eggs

5gr cinnamon

562gr flour

5gr ginger

8gr baking powder

Icing:

150gr icing sugar

Lemon juice

30gr egg white

Gel colours

Steps:

1. Mix the butter with the muscovado sugar in your mixing machine until you get a compact and well mixed dough. TIP: If you have a blow tourche, you can use it to softner the butter.

2. Combine all your powders together, flour, ginger, cinnamon, baking and add them to the dough.

3. Mix until you will get a texture similar to a sand, then you can add the eggs.

4. Once the dough is ready you can leave it in the fridge for about 2h before shaping.

5. Sape your ginger men and bake at 170ºC for 15-20 minutes.

6. Prepare your icing mixing the egg white, lemon juice and icing sugar. After add the colours. TIP: You can use gel colours, you can find them on my amazon shop.

7. You can watch the video to see how to make a papper cone to decorate your cookies.

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