Gingerbread

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Adults

Easy - Med - Hard

These gingerbread biscuits can make the perfect Christmas gift or snack - easy to make and delicious, there's no doubt they'll be appreciated!

Preparation time

1 hour plus 24 hours resting time

6 mins

50 biscuits

Ingredients

1 cup brown sugar, tightly packed

⅓ cup water

⅓ cup honey

250g of butter, cubed

1 Tbsp ground cinnamon

1 Tbsp ground ginger

1 tsp ground cloves

½ tsp grated orange rind

½ tsp ground cardamom

1½ tsp baking soda

3½ cups plain flour

Method

Mix flour, spices, orange rind and baking soda in a bowl.
Warm the honey, sugar, and water in a pot over medium heat, stir until sugar has dissolved. Remove from heat and add the butter and stir until melted.
Add half of the flour mixture to the pot and stir until incorporated, stir in the rest of the flour mixture.
Once fully combined, form dough into a log and wrap tightly in plastic wrap and refrigerate for 24 hours.
Preheat oven to 180 degrees celsius.
Take dough out and let rest at room temperature for about 15 minutes before rolling out to about 3mm in thickness on a baking paper using a lightly floured rolling pin.
Cut out biscuits with cookie cutters placing buscuits about 2cm apart.
Place baking paper with biscuits on a baking tray and bake on a middle rack until slightly browned - about 6-8 minutes.
Remove from heat and let cool for 5 minutes on baking tray before transferring to wire rack to cool completely before decorating or eating.