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Learn how to make Gingerbread Cookies at home with our Chef Bhumika  This classic cut-out gingerbread cookie recipe is easy to make, perfect for decorating, and always so delicious.  Ingredients: 90 gms Salted Butter        60 gms Brown Sugar        2 tbsp Honey        ½ tsp Spice Mix Powder (star anise, cloves, nutmeg)        150 gms All Purpose Flour        1 tbsp Water        3 tbsp Icing Sugar        1 tbsp Lemon Juice       A few drops of Water

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00:00 I love using spices in my desserts and gingerbread cookies are a perfect classic example of a Christmas treat.

00:06 Today we're going to make gingerbread cookies. Let's see how to make it.

00:09 A traditional gingerbread cookie usually has ingredients like molasses which are not easily

00:15 available here in the markets. So today I've substituted those and made it with super simple

00:20 pantry ingredients. Let's start by making our cookie dough. I'm using some salted butter.

00:26 This is 90 grams of butter, 60 grams of brown sugar, 2 tablespoons of honey,

00:33 half a teaspoon of spice mix. It's using star anise, cloves and nutmeg.

00:39 I'm going to cream the butter, sugar, honey and spice mix. This already smells so good.

00:45 We're not necessarily adding a lot of air into this. I just want the brown sugar to start

00:54 melting before we add in our flour. Next I'm going to add in 150 grams of all-purpose flour.

01:00 Lightly mix it. Once you have an almost sandy texture, use your spatula and remove whatever

01:08 stuck in your whisk. Bring everything together, scrape the bowl and add one tablespoon of water

01:15 to bring the dough together. Once you get to this consistency, you can switch over to your hands.

01:23 Time to rest this for 15 minutes. Traditionally, gingerbread cookies are made by boiling butter,

01:30 sugar and molasses together and then the dough is made using this hot mixture.

01:35 But what I find is that it makes the cookies really hard to eat. Originally, this was done

01:41 so that the gingerbread houses could stand properly during the Christmas time. But since

01:46 we're going to consume these as cookies itself, we are going to make it nice and crumbly. That's

01:51 why I've simplified the dough a lot. I'm going to roll it out on a silpat. If you don't have one,

01:57 you can also use parchment paper. Flatten it out and start rolling. Keep the cookie dough quite

02:06 thick and then using any cutter of your choice, you can start cutting. I'm using a gingerbread man

02:15 and a Christmas tree as well. Remove the excess dough and roll it again to cut the other shape.

02:23 Rearrange the cookies on the mat so that you can fit more and then roll out the rest of the

02:29 dough to cut other shapes. I have a flower here which I'm going to convert into a snowflake.

02:34 I'm going to bake this at 170 degrees Celsius till it's nice and golden brown.

02:42 This should take about 15 to 17 minutes. Once the cookies are nice and golden brown,

02:47 take them out of the oven and place them on a grill so that they can cool down properly,

02:52 even from below. Now we're going to top this off with some royal icing. So while these are

02:57 cooling, let's make that. This is three tablespoons of icing sugar that has been sifted twice. To this,

03:03 I'm adding one tablespoon of lemon juice and at first I'm just going to mix it with a spoon.

03:10 When you see it at first, it looks like very little liquid for a lot of icing sugar,

03:15 but icing sugar starts melting very quickly. Be careful not to add too much liquid at once

03:21 because this can thin down very quickly. Mash it while mixing to get a proper consistency.

03:27 To adjust this now, I'm going to add just a couple of drops of water and start mixing it once again.

03:33 If your royal icing is too runny, it will run off your cookie very quickly and it won't hold

03:39 any of its shape. That's why it's important to add little liquid at a time. This needs

03:44 one or two more drops of water, but now at this stage you have to be extremely careful.

03:50 The royal icing is nice and thick and it falls off the spoon in a single line. This is the

03:56 perfect consistency. Now let's decorate our cookies. I've added the royal icing into a piping

04:02 bag. Making the eyes right now and a cute little smile. I'm going to make some mittens here,

04:11 adding a few buttons, a small bow, time for some sop and our cute ginger man is ready.

04:17 Now let's decorate the Christmas tree. Let's start with the base.

04:23 Now I'm going to make a garland of lights

04:25 and a few dots to complete the look.

04:31 Let's turn this flower into a snowflake. I'm going to draw lines that meet right in the center

04:36 and some shorter lines in between them. Now some veins for the snowflakes.

04:44 Adding some dots in the empty spaces to complete the look

04:51 and now I'm going to decorate the rest of them just like this.

04:56 I've used royal icing today to make these cookies look extra festive, but you can also keep these

05:01 cookies plain and enjoy them. You can store this for up to a week in an airtight container and

05:07 enjoy them during Christmas. Try this recipe out, let me know how it turns out. It smells

05:13 absolutely amazing. I hope you enjoyed this video. If you did, please like, share and subscribe.

05:19 I'll see you next time. Bye!

05:25 right now. I can't wait to dig in.

Gingerbread Cookies | Christmas Cookies Decorating Ideas | Perfect Holiday Treat | Chef Bhumika

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