How to cook ginger biscuits

There are a huge number of recipes for making Christmas cookies with ginger. But it is not necessary to observe strict proportions of ingredients. If you are a creative person, then you will create real masterpieces of cooking and cook ginger biscuits to your taste.

Fantasize, play and create with the children in the kitchen. And you will definitely get a festive mood, warming the aroma of spices in the apartment and the delicate taste created by your hands, a fabulous cookie.

I will dwell in detail on the classic version of the British, who bake for Christmas traditional ginger biscuits. First you need to turn on the oven and heat it to 180 degrees. During this time, rinse with a fork 100 grams of butter, add 1 egg, ¾ cup sugar and mix the mixture until it is completely dissolved. It should turn out white and air mass.

Then take 2 cups of wheat flour, 2 teaspoons each. Ground ginger and baking powder, 1 tsp. Nutmeg and cinnamon, ½ tsp. Cardamom and a pack of vanilla sugar, carefully whisk everything thoroughly until smooth. Then pour gradually the flour with spices into the oily-egg mixture, so that the dough turns out.

Soft dough is rolled on a table and molds squeeze out cookies. Transfer it carefully onto a baking sheet covered with baking paper, leaving the distance between the figures so that they do not stick together when baking. Bake ginger biscuits for 15 minutes, at a temperature of 180 degrees. It is important not to overdry, make sure that the cookies slightly darkened from the bottom, and the top was covered in golden color.

When decorating use chocolate or white icing, food colors, jam.

In the dough for baking, you can add honey instead of sugar, carnation, ground on a coffee grinder, getting different shades of taste and aroma.

Small culinary tricks that will be useful in order to make ginger biscuits quite effective and tasty:

1. All products must be obtained in advance from the refrigerator and held on the table at room temperature for at least an hour.

2. It is better to use homemade eggs in baking.

3. Carefully choose a bouquet of spices so that their aroma literally carries with them.

4. Decorate cookies better in a warm form, so it is better to keep its shape and appearance

5. To make the cookie lush, be sure to add soda, slaked with vinegar or baking powder.

Children are happy to decorate ginger biscuits. While it is warm, it is convenient to make a hole in which a thread is inserted. Such a beautiful culinary product can be hung on the Christmas tree, used in the form of prizes on children's matinees and birthdays. Interesting Easter souvenirs can be baked and placed on the table as a treat for tea.

In addition to cookies, you can prepare a delicate and long-lasting ginger pie with yoghurt. It is perfectly refreshing, it turns out to be always soft and airy, easily and quickly prepared. He especially likes children.

To make it, you need to take a glass of light yogurt (you can replace it with kefir or milk with lemon juice, but the taste will be wrong), half a pack of melted butter, add 2 beaten eggs, ¾ cups of powdered sugar, 2 tsp. Fresh grated ginger, mix everything. Sift 1.5 cups of flour, add soda or baking powder into it and pour into the mixture. You should get a gentle semi-liquid dough.

At the bottom of the baking dish, it's nice to put a slice of apples or pears, gently lay the dough and decorate with the remaining slices from above. Bake the cake for 50 minutes at a temperature of 175 degrees. Cool it in the form and only after that turn over to the dish.

Ginger in cooking is used since ancient times in fresh and dry ground form. Pieces of fresh ginger root can be harvested in syrup, you get an excellent and useful treat. To do this, peel is removed from it and soaked for a long time in cold water to eliminate bitterness. After that, stand in thick syrup or melted chocolate.