Sunday, December 23, 2018

Buckingham Palace Gingerbread Cookies


Photo: Royal/UK
There are Christmas cookies I make every year. Gingerbread cookies are not one of them. Often we bought Lebkuchen dipped in dark chocolate from a German bakery, so there was no need to make gingerbread cookies. Our confections tended to be cookies we could make better ourselves at home. But I do like to try new recipes. A British Facebook friend gave me this Christmas cookie recipe, and they are very simple to bake:

Buckingham Palace Gingerbread Cookies

Ingredients:

7/8 cup self raising flour (I will  substitute 7/8 cup of all-purpose flour, adding 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder and 1/4 teaspoon salt because I do not buy self-rising flour.)
1 teaspoon ground ginger
1 teaspoon mixed spice (includes 
cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice)
Photo: McCormick

1/2 cup unsalted butter
2/3 cup soft dark brown sugar
2 tablespoon granulated sugar for dusting

3/8 cup milk (= 6 tablespoons)

Directions: 

1) Add the ingredients, one-by-one, to a mixing bowl and incorporate.

2) Chill the dough in the refrigerator for up to 1/2 hour.

3) With a rolling pin, roll out the dough flat. Eyeball it, not too thick or thin. 

4) With cookie cutters, cut your dough into shapes. Dusk with a little sugar.

5) Bake at 350 degrees F for 10-12 minutes. Let cool.

Royal Icing to decorate the cookies:
Wilton.com

Ingredients: 


2 pasteurized egg whites
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 cups powdered sugar

Optional: Food coloring of your choice; or leave the frosting white

Directions:

Mix and decorate your gingerbread cookies however you like. If you don't have a special icing tool, cut one corner off of a plastic sandwich bag to fill and squirt out the icing to decorate. The cookies that look like the work of a first grader, get eaten quickly!

What surprises me is, there is no call for an egg in the recipe, a fact I didn't know about gingerbread cookies.

As readers are aware, not only do I feature recipes in order to share them, but so I can return here to remember how to make them again!  Lately cooking and baking requires grabbing an iPad. Oh, what a digital age we live in!

For very busy people, Voorman is a small cookie company on the East coast. Their cookies are nearly as good as homemade and available at Rite-Aid and Target for about $3 for a 14 ounce bag. There is no shame in buying a bag!

Enjoy!


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Making Springerle
Scottish Shortbread
Czechoslovakian Cookies
Coconut Macaroons ... Delish

5 comments:

  1. Dearest Debbie,
    The Coconut Macaroons with or without chocolate would be my favorite!
    Merry Christmas to you and yours!
    Hugs,
    Mariette

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    1. I made the coconut macaroons last night. If you lived nearby, I'd give you a batch. Hope you and Pieter have a Merry Christmas!

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  2. These are just too cute to eat! Although.....I might have to make an exception. They sound delicious!

    Cheers, M-T

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    1. Although I like to cook and bake, I don't like to spend oodles of time in the kitchen. So I'll never be a Martha Stewart. Rachael Ray and Jamie Oliver more so. 1, 2, 3 and you're done, but like the result.

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