A simple recipe for cooking ginger biscuits

In the west and in the USA ginger biscuits cause a strong association with the New Year holidays. Excellent taste and a simple recipe allow you to please yourself and your loved ones in a short time. In our country, the popularity of this dish continues to grow and many have already managed to appreciate the excellent taste and the benefits it brings. There are many different cooking options. What do you want from the classics, after all, English monks of the 11th century discovered this delicacy.

Dough for ginger biscuits

The test recipe is quite simple and does not require any extra gestures. All products are in free sale in our supermarkets, their cost is low, but the result of their efforts you can be proud.

Necessary ingredients for the test:

• Flour - 2-3 glasses;
• Sugar - 1 glass;
• Butter - 100 grams;
• Egg-1 piece;
• Loosen up - 1 teaspoon;
• The root of ginger, ground - 0,5 tablespoon;
• Cinnamon and cloves - to taste, but do not overdo it.

Depending on your wishes, you can add lemon peel, then you will get ginger biscuits with lemon or honey, then the name of the finished product is ginger biscuits with honey.

Preparation:

1. In a separate bowl, mix ground ginger, cinnamon, cloves and baking powder;
2. Add flour to the container;
3. In another container, prepare a liquid dressing: mix the melted butter and sugar, whisking everything until the liquid becomes white;
4. Mix the two containers together, adding an egg. Mix the dough well;
5. Everything, the dough is ready. Sprinkle the table with flour, roll it out and roll it. Remains only to cut out the figures of future cookies and send everything to the oven.

This is just one of the ways how to mix dough for ginger biscuits, but it is one of the simplest, and the result is tasty.

How to cook ginger biscuits?

To begin with - we will result the base recipe which differs simplicity of preparation and will please fans of sweet and useful.

Ingredients:

• The root of ginger, ground - 0,5 tablespoon;
• Sugar - 1 glass;
• Flour - 2 cups;
• Butter - 100 grams;
• Egg - 1 piece;
• Ground cinnamon - 1 teaspoon;
• Loosen up - 1 teaspoon;
• Carnation - 5 pieces;
• Cinnamon - to taste;
• Sugar powder or ground almonds - to taste;

Preparation:

1. Rubbing ginger, if you bought a whole or just add the already ground, grind the clove and cinnamon, add the baking powder;
2. Stir ginger, cloves, cinnamon with flour;
3. Melt butter and pour into a separate bowl. There we pour out the sugar and whisk all the whites;
4. Pour the flour and butter into a container with butter and sugar and put the egg. Knead the dough;
5. How it will be ready, sprinkle the workplace with flour and roll out the dough;
6. Pick up the form for the clipping of ginger biscuit pieces from the dough. There are special devices for this, which are sold in stores, but you can also use improvised tools. The main thing is that you like it;
7. Sprinkle with powdered sugar or almonds;
8. Lubricate the tray with oil, then lay out the future cookies on it.

We set the temperature at 180 degrees and the timer for 30 minutes.

How to decorate ginger biscuits?

Cookies did, but it seemed that something was missing? Do you want more festive colors and decorations? It is not difficult, variations of all sorts of additional glazes, including "drawing" is enough. Here is the simplest example.

Ingredients:

• Milk - 3 tablespoons;
• Chocolate - 60 grams;
• Butter - 10-15 grams.

Preparation:

1. In a small saucepan, heat the milk and dip the pieces of chocolate into it. Wait until it melts;
2. After the milk has cooled - put the butter inside and mix well;
3. Now you can safely dunk cookies in this mass.

As you can see - there is nothing difficult in ginger biscuit recipes. Just over an hour of your time and the whole family will be pleasantly surprised by your culinary talents!