How to Bake the Perfect Gingerbread Cookie
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How to Bake the Perfect Gingerbread Cookie

Our feature blogger this week is talented food blogger and stylist Agnieszka Pałtynowicz - all the way from Poland! She's taking over the blog to teach us how to make the perfect Christmas treats in the lead up to the silly season.

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GINGERBREAD COOKIES WITH PLUM MARMALADE

(Recipe for about 30 cookies)

December smells of spices and sweets! Gingerbread rules! It's my fav because it can be a snack or a decoration, and you can have it with stuffing and without. Today I'll be showing you the recipe for gingerbread with plum jam.

Ingredients:

- 2 cups flour + more for rolling

- ¾ teaspoon instant coffee

- 1,5 spoon dark cocoa

- 2 spoons hot honey

- ¾ cup sugar

- 1,5 teaspoon baking soda

- 2 spoons mix of seasoning spices or: 1 teaspoon ground ginger, 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon, ½ teaspoon ground nutmeg, ¼ teaspoon cloves.

- 1 spoon unsalted butter, room temperature

- 1 egg + 1 beaten egg

- ¼ lightly heated milk

- 1 teaspoon grated orange peel

- plum marmalade

+ frosting, chocolate glaze, kitchen cutting molds e.g. stars, kitchen syringe.

 

  1. In a large bowl, whisk together flour, cocoa and coffee, pour hot honey and mix all. While stirring, add one after the other: sugar, baking soda, spices, butter and egg.
  1. Add orange peel to milk and gently heat together. Gradually pour warm milk (preferably one teaspoon at a time, we don’t have to use all the liquid) into the mass and knead the dough until it is moderately hard and dense. If it comes too thin, you can sprinkle a little flour. Thoroughly knead for another 10 minutes.
  1. There are two ways of stuffing - before baking and after.

Before baking:

- on a floured table rool the dough to a thickness of ½ cm. Cut out shapes with selected molds. Spread one half of the dough with a little plum marmalade and cover the second half, pressing the dough around the filling - if the shape will deform, we can cut it again with the mold.

After baking:

- on a floured table rool the dough to a thickness of 1 cm. Cut out shapes. After baking, press marmalade inside with a syringe or a filler. This way we can put more filling inside.

Put gingerbreads on a baking tray lined with baking paper at intervals of 2-3cm. Spread with beaten egg.

  1. Bake in oven preheated to 180 ° C for about 7-10 minutes (gingerbread without filling) and about 10-13 minutes (gingerbread with filling).
  1. Decorate with: frosting, chocolate icing, etc. Ready brownies are perfect for the role of decoration of Christmas tree!

 

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