Ginger cookies with rice flour
Description
I offer a gluten-free recipe for ginger cookies made with rice flour. If you want to make ginger cookies even healthier, replace the sugar with a sugar substitute or honey. Otherwise, follow the step-by-step recipe and bake to your health. The bake is ready. Serve at the table.
Instructions
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Step 1
Prepare the ingredients.
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Step 2
Whisk 1 egg with sugar (or with a sugar substitute, honey).
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Step 3
Pour the melted butter into the mixture.
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Step 4
Mix the rice flour with the dry spices.
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Step 5
Add the flour mixture to the other ingredients and beat. The dough will be crumbly; gather it into a ball.
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Step 6
Roll the dough out to a thickness of 0.8–1 cm; it is best to do this between two layers of plastic wrap.
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Step 7
Use a cookie cutter to cut out the cookies.
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Step 8
Carefully use a knife to transfer the cookies to a baking sheet.
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Step 9
Brush the cookies with egg white before baking. Bake the gingerbread at 180–200°C for 12–15 minutes. They should not be browned too much.
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Step 10
Immediately remove the hot cookies from the baking sheet.
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Step 11
Ginger cookies made with rice flour can be served plain, dusted with powdered sugar, or decorated with icing. I went with the last option. Just in case, here’s how to make it. Mix 1 egg white, 200 grams of powdered sugar, and 0.5 teaspoon of lemon juice. Transfer to a piping bag. This icing makes it easy and quick to decorate the cookies. But you end up with quite a lot of it, so keep that in mind. Ginger cookies made with rice flour are in no way inferior to traditional ginger cookies, neither in taste nor in appearance.