This is going to be a quick and short post…simply because I have wasted so many days, trying out gingerbread recipes, just to confirm that the one I love is still the best. Life’s lesson to be learnt there. And now I have run out of time for everything else that still has to be done. Like writing a post worth reading.
Be that as it may, this biscuit is worth baking. The thing about this gingerbread biscuit is that its just that; gingery and buttery. It has a good snap from the golden sugar, is sweet and buttery to the taste, with the warming heat of ginger and cooks to a lovely burnished golden colour. Kate Shirazi has come up tops again for me and there is no use deviating from this recipe from Cookie Magic. The recipe makes a fat slab of buff coloured dough, freezes superbly and makes biscuits aplenty which keep very well.
I had taken it to my head to ice some of the biscuits with royal icing, which I had successfully done before. However, with patience and time running short, I have partially iced these cookies, mainly to give to Lil Lassie’s teachers as a Christmas gift, at her request. While not entirely in keeping with the warmer climate of Doha, I couldn’t quite bring myself to decorated palm tree shaped biscuits. So its mittens, sleighs and santa’s hats ahoy.
Here’s hoping the run-up to Christmas is less scrabbled at your end than mine!
Merry Christmas!
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Absolutely Stunning Caroline! wow wow wow is all that I can say! Those teachers are going to be pleased as Christmas punch!
Thankyou! I hope so Hannah
Its lovely to stand up (huddled over a kitchen counter for ages is nae great on the back!) and look at them all and be satisfied too! Bonus!
Wow you decorated those so beautifully! I am saving this recipe to try next time I want to make gingerbread. Yum
-Silvi
Thanks Silvi….I cannot say that the path to these biscuits (the third round) was peaceable but at least it came out well in the end!! Let me know if you try the recipe….
Oh FGS Carrie, you are sickening – this is your “in a rush” effort?! Lol, I think I would need ten years of training like marital artists go through in cheesy movies, eating only rice, being beaten by their sensai to produce anything like this! Stunning *big fat envious sigh*…!
ROFL! Hush!!! Practice and even then, you might screw it up! Third time lucky woman but the point is not to throw in the piping bag!!!
These are truly beautiful, I’ve been making loads of gingerbread this year but my decorating hasn’t been this pretty
Thankyou muppy, but am sure your gingerbread was just delicious! It’s such a christmas biscuit isn’t it!
Carrie, your hand indeed! The sleigh and hat are my faves….not that the others aren’t worth mentioning, so incredibly laced and curly-qued they are! It’s always a pleasure seeing your creations, i could only immagine the teachers will be geniunely pleased.
Take care, sweetie!
Oh I like the baubles best but still have much love for the others! Thanks NY, and i hope the teachers like them too…