Gingerbread Cookies

Recipe from a blogger

Gingerbread Cookies (30 cookies) For this recipe , i used the handheld mixer

Ingredients
65g butter
80g light brown sugar
1/2 tsp salt
1 egg (I used 65g egg)
180g Molasses ( I used 160g, can get it from phoon huat)
445g Plain Flour
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
1 1/4 tsp ground ginger

Method
1) Sieve flour, baking soda, ground cinnamon & ground ginger together and set aside.
2) Cream the butter, sugar & salt together till it is light and fluffy.
3) Add in the egg slowly into the butter mixture and mix well.
4) Add in flour and molassed alternately until well combined .(add in some flour if dough is too wet. Dough must be soft not stickly)
5) Divide the dough into 3 portions and wrap it with cling wrap and put the dough in the fridge for 20 mins
6) Pre heat oven for 10 mins at 180
7) Put baking sheet on baking tray. Get ready 2 baking sheets and place the dough in between the sheet and roll . (Take one dough at a time)
8) Use a cookie cutter and cut out the dough and then put them on the baking tray.
9) Then put the baking tray in the fridge for 5 mins before baking them.
10) For soft texture cookies , bake for 8 mins. For hard texture cookies, bake for 12mins.

 I baked mine for 8 mins.


Royal Icing

4 tsp meringue powder
4 tbsp water
300g icing sugar (sieve)
1-2 tsp lemon juice

1) Whisk meringue powder and water until soft peak stage
2) Add icing sugar gradually and whisk until stiff and fluffy . Scrape down the bowl occasionally.
3) Add lemon jucie and whisk for another 1 -2 mins until very stiff.
4) Ready to use now.
5) Divide them into different colour and add in lemon juice accordingly.
6) Add 2-3 tsp of lemon juice to get writing consistency,
7) Put the royal icing in the piping bag and get ready to draw the pattern.