The Cheerful Christmas holidays offers excellent opportunity to celebrate and rejoice. You can utilize this free time to enjoy the snowy outdoors. Plus you can also plan for the activities for the whole family cerate some wonderful Christmas Decorations. There are many things you can do; you can surely use this time to make some of your favorite food.
The Gingerbread People
Gingerbread People
Gingerbread people can be made in advance. These sweets can be served as a perfect gift for someone close to your heart, some close relative and friends. Children love making these cookies as it gives them a chance to play with dough. It is true that it would not be a Christmas without these little cookies. There are many variations of this can be seen around the town. But the one I am sharing with you is an old one and tested for good result.
Ingredients:
For cookies
1. Half cup of unsalted butter
2. Half cup of the brown sugar
3. Half cup of Molasses
4. Two and half cups of flour
5. One egg
6. One tea spoon baking soda
7. Half teaspoon salt
8. Two teaspoons of ground ginger
9. One tea spoon ground cinnamon
10. Half tea spoon ground nutmeg
11. Half tea spoon ground cloves
12. Dried Currants for decorating
For Icing
1. Half cup sifted confectioner’s sugar
2. One egg white
3. One tea spoon strained lemon juice
4. Food color
Method
Step 1
Take a large mixing bowl; mix the butter and brown sugar together. Add Molasses and egg after beating. Equally blend and let it rest for some time while you mix other things.
Step 2
In another bowl, mix the flour, baking soda, salt, ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves add this mixture to the butter mix. And leave in fridge for an hour.
Step 3
Pre heat oven at 325 degree F and role the gingerbread dough to one forth inch. Cut the dough to the shape of the cookies, and put into the baking tray. Bake for ten minutes. Transfer them onto the wire rack. Press the currants in place of eyes and mouth.
Step 4
In a small bowl mix the icing ingredients. Beat until the mixture is thick. Pour to the piping cone. And decorate in thin lines around the ginger bread people. Children can be kept happy in this activity for many hours. You can also decorate the ginger bread people with things like orange peal, apple, and pear etc.
Merry Christmas
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