Martin Blunos' Latvian gingerbread biscuits
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Enjoy a traditional Christmas treat of fragrant, easy-to-make gingerbread biscuits - leave them out for Santa on Christmas Eve!
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Prep time: 30 mins
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Cooking time: 10 mins
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Makes: 25
Ingredients
- 900g plain flour
- 4tsp baking powder
- 8tsp ground ginger
- 3tsp ground cinnamon
- ¼ tsp cayenne pepper
- Pinch of salt
- 500g unsalted butter, diced
- 400g caster sugar
- 9tbsp golden syrup
- 3 medium eggs, beaten
Method
- Sift the flour, baking powder, ginger, cinnamon, cayenne and salt into a mixing bowl.
- Add in the butter and sugar and rub in until the butter is absorbed and the mixture has a sandy texture.
- Mix in the syrup and enough of the beaten egg to make a fairly stiff, smooth dough. Shape the dough into a ball and wrap in cling film. Place the dough in the fridge to firm up for at least 45 minutes.
- Preheat the oven to 180°C/gas mark 4. In the meantime, roll out the dough to 3mm thickness and cut out biscuits into desired shapes.
- Place the gingerbread biscuits on greased, non-stick baking sheets and bake the biscuits for 10-12 mins until golden brown.
- Remove the biscuits from the oven and allow to cool on the baking sheets. Decorate with biscuits with piped royal icing. Store in an airtight container.
By Martin Blunos
Nutritional information
Guideline Daily Amount for 2,000 calories per day are: 70g fat, 20g saturated fat, 90g sugar, 6g salt.
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