Classic ginger cookies

Step-by-step preparation

Cooking time: 2 hr

1. STEP 1

   

   How to make classic gingerbread cookies? Prepare your food. Take natural, high-quality butter, without vegetable additives. Remove it from the refrigerator in advance to allow the butter to soften. You can change the set of spices depending on your taste. Only ginger is required, the cookies are ginger after all.

2. STEP 2

   

   Crush the cloves in a mortar or grind in a coffee grinder.

3. STEP 3

   

   You should get a fine powder. Or use already ground cloves.

4. STEP 4

   

   Mix flour with ginger, cinnamon, cloves and soda. Read about the specifics of using soda in baking in the article at the end of the recipe.

5. STEP 5

   

   Sift the flour with spices and soda through a sieve.

6. STEP 6

   

   Beat butter at room temperature with sugar.

7. STEP 7

   

   You can use a regular whisk or use a mixer.

8. STEP 8

   

   Add the egg to the butter mixture.

9. STEP 9

   

   Then liquid honey (if your honey is thick, no problem, just melt it in a water bath or in the microwave).

10. STEP 10

    

    Beat everything together into a fluffy mass.

11. STEP 11

    

    Next, add flour in portions and using a mixer, mix it well into the butter. Remember that you may need a little less or more flour, depending on the consistency of the dough. Read about the properties of flour in the link at the end of the recipe.

12. STEP 12

    

    The dough is ready, it will remain liquid and sticky, it’s not scary - after freezing it will be easy to work with.

13. STEP 13

    

    Divide the dough in half, add cocoa to one half if desired.

14. STEP 14

    

    Stir to create chocolate dough.

15. STEP 15

    

    Wrap both types of dough in cling film and place in the freezer or refrigerator for 1-1.5 hours (I used the freezer).

16. STEP 16

    

    Remove the white dough from the freezer and divide it in half. Dust baking paper well with flour and roll out one half thinly directly on it.

17. STEP 17

    

    Use cookie cutters to squeeze out cookie shapes.

18. STEP 18

    

    And with the help of a cocktail straw you can make holes in the cookies - then they can be hung on the Christmas tree.

19. STEP 19

    

    Place the paper with cookies on a baking sheet. Bake cookies at 180 degrees for 5-7 minutes. Please note that the cookies bake very quickly, so be careful not to burn them. Time and temperature are approximate, use your oven as a guide. Read about ovens in the article at the end of this recipe.

20. STEP 20

    

    Do the same with the rest of the dough - I got 5 batches.

21. STEP 21

    

    When hot, the cookies are soft, but when they cool down they become crispy.

22. STEP 22

    

    It is very convenient to store cookies in a tin jar - I have it full, even part of the cookies did not fit.

23. STEP 23

    

    You can make a garland from cookies with holes and decorate a Christmas tree - it turns out very beautiful and homey.

24. STEP 24

    

    Enjoy your tea!

Comments on the recipe

Testomania

17.08.2023

4.8

Gingerbread cookies are one of my favorites. I decided to try making it using this recipe. At the same time, I slightly reduced the amount of spices, but in vain, the bright expressive spicy taste of ginger cookies is precisely the highlight of this baking. I prepared it exactly following the technology described in the recipe. The consistency of the dough turned out to be similar to paste, at first I even thought of pipetting the cookies using a pastry bag and a nozzle)) But I didn’t do that. I scooped the dough into bags using a spoon and placed it in the refrigerator overnight. It was not difficult to work with the frozen dough, provided there was a generous dusting of flour on both the work surface and the tools - rolling pin and molds. I rolled out the dough into a layer 2-3 mm thick, not very thin. The cookies still rose in the oven, so when finished they did not become crispy, but remained soft. It baked quickly. And just as quickly it disappeared from the table)) My daughter liked the dark one better, with a slight chocolate flavor. And for me it’s light) Classic ginger cookies are a great recipe, I’ll definitely use them again, thank you!

M. Yulya

17.08.2023

4.6

The aroma is fabulous! There is a recipe for gingerbread cookies without cocoa.

Sardana Tereshkina

17.08.2023

4.7

Thanks for the recipe! It seemed to me that there was not enough flour. According to the recipe, if you make it, the cookies will turn out pimply, but if there is a little more flour, then the structure will be smooth and the cookies will not spread.