Ginger cookies classic

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   How to make a classic ginger cookie? Prepare the products. Take natural, high-quality butter, without vegetable additives. Take it out of the refrigerator in advance so that the butter becomes soft. You can change the set of spices depending on your taste. Only ginger is required, the cookies are still ginger.

2. Step 2:

   

   Grind the cloves in a mortar or grind them in a coffee grinder.

3. Step 3:

   

   A fine powder should be obtained. Or use already ground cloves.

4. Step 4:

   

   Mix flour with ginger, cinnamon, cloves and soda.

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 take a regular whisk or use a mixer.

8. Step 8:

   

   Add the egg to the butter mixture.

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   Then liquid honey (if your honey is thick, it's not scary, just melt it in a water bath or in the microwave).

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    Whisk everything together into a fluffy mass.

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    Next, add flour in portions and mix it well into the butter with a mixer.

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    The dough is ready, it will remain runny and sticky, it's not scary — it will be easy to work with it after the freezer.

14. Step 13:

    

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

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    Mix — you will get a chocolate dough.

16. Step 15:

    

    Wrap both types of dough in plastic wrap, put it in the freezer or refrigerator for 1-1.5 hours (I used the freezer).

17. Step 16:

    

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

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    Squeeze out cookie figures with molds.

19. Step 18:

    

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

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    Put the cookie paper on a baking sheet. Bake cookies at 180 degrees for 5-7 minutes. Keep in mind that cookies are baked very quickly, so make sure that they do not burn.

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    Do the same with the rest of the test — I got 5 batches.

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

23. Step 22:

    

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

24. Step 23:

    

    You can make a garland from cookies with holes and decorate a Christmas tree — it turns out very beautifully and at home.

25. Step 24:

    

    Have a nice tea party!