Christmas Gingerbread Cookie Fun !

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

1. Place the cookie dough ingredients into the mixing bowl and mix 12sec speed 6
2. Continue to work on the dough and knead for 50 sec
3. Remove the dough and place onto a lightly floured baking mat or cling wrap and place in the fridge for at least 30 minutes
4. Preheat oven to 180 degree (reduce 10 degree for fan forced oven)
5. Remove the chilled dough from the fridge and roll with a rolling pin until it is about half cm thick
6. Use the cookie cutter to shape into desired shapes
7. Place onto a lined baking tray and bake for around 10 minutes or until brown
8. Cool on a cooling rack
9. Mix the icing decoration 15sec/speed 3
10. Pipe the icing mixture using a piping bag on cooled cookies to decorate