Christmas gingerbread cookies
Description
Homemade treats for tea. Instead of buying gingerbread at the store, try making it yourself. It's not difficult at all, especially if you have special cookie cutters for shaping the dough. Let your imagination run free and decorate the cookies as creatively as possible.
Instructions
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Step 1
Take the butter out of the refrigerator and let it sit until softened. Place it in a bowl, add a raw chicken egg, and sprinkle in the cane sugar. The sugar will make your cookies crispy.
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Step 2
Beat all ingredients with a mixer at the highest speed for three minutes, until the mixture becomes smooth and acquires a light yellow color.
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Step 3
Sift the flour through a sieve and add it to the butter mixture. Also add cocoa powder, ground dried ginger, cinnamon, and nutmeg to the bowl.
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Step 4
Knead a soft and elastic dough. Its consistency should be the same as shortcrust pastry. Wrap it in a bag or plastic wrap and refrigerate for half an hour.
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Step 5
Once the dough has cooled sufficiently, remove it from the refrigerator and roll it out on parchment paper or a work surface into a sheet about five millimeters thick. Use metal or plastic cutters to cut out the cookies.
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Step 6
Preheat the oven to 200 degrees. Place the resulting shapes onto a baking sheet. Bake for ten to fifteen minutes. Decorate with sprinkles and icing.