Gingerbread Cookies

Makes 24 cookies approx Prep Time 35 minutes   Cook Time 10 minutes   Rated: Print

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An easy and quick shortbread gingerbread mash up that is just worth a go this year and every year! Yummers.

Ever the perfect cookie at this time of year, they can be quite problematic..so here we have a simpler version, more like a shortbread I suppose or a pfeffernusse of sorts, or even a cross between the two. I think these are a little easier to roll and cut than most gingerbread as the dough is more workable because of the absence of molasses or treacle. And I might say, a little grown up with a bite of pepper every now and again. Enjoy…and can I say it yet? Merry Christmas Baking...

Now go and try some of these as well:

White Christmas Cheesecake

Macaron Christmas Trees

The Christmas Stollen

Paleo Christmas Fruit Cake

Mini Christmas Pudding Truffles

 

 

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Do

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Place butter, Sugar and Spice mix, salt and vanilla into Thermomix bowl and blend 10 sec/speed 5.

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Add remaining ingredients and blend 10 sec/speed 6. Scrape down sides of bowl and tip out onto well-floured silicon mat. It will be fairly unmixed and crumbly. Knead together by hand into a flat disc. Place into fridge for at least 30 minutes.

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Preheat oven to 180ºC and line 2 baking trays with paper.

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Roll dough out to ½ cm thickness and cut using cookie cutters of choice. This dough is quite crumbly but will come together when you work it.

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Bake 10 minutes until fragrant and golden.

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Allow to cool on trays.

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Brush with glaze while still warm. Decorate with piped icing, or other decorations of choice.

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Glaze;

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Place all ingredients into Thermomix bowl making sure that they do not get stuck on top of the blades.

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Cook for 4 min/70ºC/speed 1. Cool slightly.

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Brush onto baked cookies. Do not touch the glaze once brushed onto the cookies as it will mark very easily.

Tenina Holder is a wife, mother of five and grandmother of eight, who started cooking in the olden days before Thermomix was even a thing.

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