Prep time
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Adults
Medium
Difficulty
Easy - Med - HardGingerbread
These gingerbread biscuits can make the perfect Christmas gift or snack - easy to make and delicious, there's no doubt they'll be appreciated!
Ingredients
- 1 cup brown sugar, tightly packed
- ⅓ cup water
- ⅓ cup honey
- 250g of butter, cubed
- 1 Tbsp ground cinnamon
- 1 Tbsp ground ginger
- 1 tsp ground cloves
- ½ tsp grated orange rind
- ½ tsp ground cardamom
- 1½ tsp baking soda
- 3½ cups plain flour
Method
- Mix flour, spices, orange rind and baking soda in a bowl.
- Warm the honey, sugar, and water in a pot over medium heat, stir until sugar has dissolved. Remove from heat and add the butter and stir until melted.
- Add half of the flour mixture to the pot and stir until incorporated, stir in the rest of the flour mixture.
- Once fully combined, form dough into a log and wrap tightly in plastic wrap and refrigerate for 24 hours.
- Preheat oven to 180 degrees celsius.
- Take dough out and let rest at room temperature for about 15 minutes before rolling out to about 3mm in thickness on a baking paper using a lightly floured rolling pin.
- Cut out biscuits with cookie cutters placing biscuits about 2cm apart.
- Place baking paper with biscuits on a baking tray and bake on a middle rack until slightly browned - about 6-8 minutes.
- Remove from heat and let cool for 5 minutes on baking tray before transferring to wire rack to cool completely before decorating or eating.
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