Get your gingerbread man and Christmas theme cookie moulds ready for some fun with the kids. Use your Thermomix® to make some quick cookie dough be it regular cookies or gingerbread ones.
Cookie Dough Ingredients
- 380g flour
- 1/2 TBSP ground ginger
- 1/2 tsp mixed spice
- 1 tsp bicarbonate soda
- 100g brown sugar
- 130g non salted butter
- 130g golden syrup
- 1 egg yolk
- Pinch of salt
Icing Decoration
- 1 egg white
- 200g icing sugar
Directions
- Place the cookie dough ingredients into the mixing bowl and mix 12sec speed 6
- Continue to work on the dough and knead for 50 sec
- Remove the dough and place onto a lightly floured baking mat or cling wrap and place in the fridge for at least 30 minutes
- Preheat oven to 180 degree (reduce 10 degree for fan forced oven)
- Remove the chilled dough from the fridge and roll with a rolling pin until it is about half cm thick
- Use the cookie cutter to shape into desired shapes
- Place onto a lined baking tray and bake for around 10 minutes or until brown
- Cool on a cooling rack
- Mix the icing decoration 15sec/speed 3
- Pipe the icing mixture using a piping bag on cooled cookies to decorate