Gingerbread Cookies Gluten Free Recipes

GINGERBREAD COOKIES (GLUTEN FREE)

Steps:

• In a bowl cream the butter and brown sugar.
• Add golden syrup and egg and mix till combined.
• In a seperate bowl sift together all the dry ingredients, then add to the wet ingredients.
• Mix together and then refrigerate for 1 hour.
• Remove dough from refrigerator and place onto a floured surface and knead lightly.
• roll out to 5mm thickness and then cut into shapes using cookie cutters.
• Bake in 170 degree celsius oven for approx 15 minutes or till well browned.
• Leave to cool on trays for 5 minutes then transfer to cooking racks.
• when cool ice with royal icing or any hard setting icing.

GLUTEN-FREE GINGERBREAD

Steps:

• In a small pan heat the butter, syrup and sugar together until melted, stirring occasionally. Set to one side to cool slightly. In a large bowl mix together the bicarb, ginger, cinnamon and flour. Pour in the melted butter mixture and stir to combine and using your hands, bring together to form a dough. This will be soft but will set up in the fridge.
• Take 2 sheets of greaseproof paper, lay the dough down on one, shape it into a rectangle and place the other sheet on top of it. Roll the dough out to 1/2 cm thick and put flat in the fridge for 1 hour to set and firm up.
• Heat the oven to 190C/170C fan/gas 5 and line a large baking tray with non-stick greaseproof paper. Take the rolled dough out of the fridge and cut out shapes from it. We did 9cm stars, but you can also choose any shape, depending on the size it will need a few mins less/more in the oven. We also did some with, smaller stars cut out the centre of them.
• Meanwhile make the icing, combine the icing sugar with 1 - 2 tbsp water, until it's thick and pipeable but not thin enough that it will run. Decorate the cooled biscuits with whatever designs