Cake thirty six - Easter Gingerbread Cookies

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I’d long associated gingerbread cookies to Christmas, considering the main ingredients like honey or the spice mix more wintry. Easter is usually the time for chocolate and cookies which taste more like sweetened breads. But if you try these cookies you’ll change idea, for sure, as I did! These chocolate gingerbread cookies are special, the right taste for Easter! 

125g butter, softened

165g brown sugar

1 egg

225g flour

35g raising flour

1 teaspoon ginger powder

25g cocoa powder

Beat butter, sugar and egg with electric mixer until combined. Stir in ginger powder, flours and cocoa in two batches. Knead dough on floured surface until smooth. Roll dough between sheets of baking paper until 5mm thick. Refrigerate 30 minutes.

Line oven trays with baking paper.

Using Easter cookie cutters, cut cookies and place them onto oven trays. Bake cookies from 10 to 12 minutes depending on size. 

Green Glacé Icing

125g icing sugar

some drops of water

green food colouring 

Mix icing sugar and water until spreadable. Add some green food coloring.

Decorate cookies to your taste!

also visit: http://time-for-a-cake.blogspot.it/2014/04/easter-baking-cake-thirty-six.html

Cake nineten - Santa's House 2013 edition

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It’s been long since I first attempted to make a gingerbread house but every year I’m as thrilled as the first time I made it and I note down some little changes to make the next time. This time I used  a sugarless dough for the house external walls, the trees and sleigh and it really proved very good to look at but quite weak to bear the weight of the roof. So we had to make other walls with the old style (I mean the one we’ve always used) dough and stick two walls together - one made with the new dough and one with the old using some brownish icing as glue. Another new thing was to bake the roof in two parts and bake them twice so that they become harder. 

Sugarless gingerbread dough
200 g butter 
500 g honey
2 tsp ginger, pepper, cinnamon and muscat nut
15 g cocoa
1200 g flour
1 packet baking powder
1 pinch salt
2 eggs
same proceeding as in Cake nineteen
http://time-for-cake-making.blogspot.it/2013/03/cake-nineteen-father-xmass-house.html

for ‘old style’ gingerbread dough see link above

for assembling advice see:

http://time-for-cake-making.blogspot.it/2013/03/cake-nineteen-father-xmass-house-making.html


http://time-for-cake-making.blogspot.it/2013/03/cake-nineteen-father-xmass-house_10.html

 House details:
1. House grounds and trees

2. Front wall, window with flowers and wreath

 3. Side walls and window 

4. Inside wall with door and Santa Claus

5. Inside the house 

6. Sides and back

 7. ready!

 also visit http://time-for-a-cake.blogspot.it/2013/12/cake-nineteen-2013-edition.html