One of the easiest and most fun Christmas recipes to make with your kids...
December is sure to be full of excitement when you have little ones at home! This recipe is perfect to make in the run up to Christmas, whether you want a fun activity to fill the afternoon, simple homemade gifts for school and good friends or an easy Christmas dessert... we've got you covered!
Now is the ideal time for family moments and quality time with the children! What's better than creating delicious recipes together and then… devouring them!
Let's make Gingerbread Cookies together!
One of children's favorite sweet snacks is none other than cookies. Gingerbread cookies are now a symbol of Christmas and one can find them in decorations, on Christmas trees, in pastry shops and of course make them, since they are the quintessential Christmas cookies. They are crunchy with a wonderful aroma, a special taste that children love and go perfectly with the morning milk or your morning coffee!
Decorate your cookies with your kids for a fun Christmas activity! The basic recipe for making Gingerbread cookies or trees or stars or whatever design you want is as follows:
Ingredients:
1 egg
3.5 cups of all-purpose flour
3/4 brown sugar
3/4 cup molasses or honey
2.5 teaspoon ginger powder
1/2 cup butter
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon freshly ground nutmeg and cloves
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon orange zest
Salt
For the icing:
2 egg whites
3 cups of powdered sugar
vanilla
food color
Procedure:
In a bowl, mix the flour, the ginger, the baking powder, the cinnamon, the nutmeg, the cloves and the salt.
Add the butter and the sugar to the mixer, then the egg and beat them, the next addition is the honey or molasses and the orange zest. Beat all the ingredients in the mixer at medium speed!
On low speed, gradually add all the solid ingredients you initially put in the bowl and continue mixing. Once your dough is ready, flour it and roll it out with a rolling pin!
Finally it's the creative part of the recipe… you choose festive hoop designs and cookie cutters to cut the dough and make your cookies. The different designs will give a playful touch to the whole process while the result will be very festive!
As soon as your designs are ready, put them on a baking tray with greaseproof paper and bake in a preheated oven at 180C for 10'. You take them out soft and they harden as they cool. If you want to decorate with cake decorating icing bag, you create the design you want on the cookies and they are ready!
An alternative option…
With the NAVA cookie maker and icing gun 'Misty' the process of making cookies becomes easy and full of imagination, especially for those who like new and original designs. Prepare the dough as we said above, fill the cookie machine and make homemade and healthy cookies and brownies directly in the pan. Easy to use as it dispenses an equal amount of dough at the push of a button to make cookies easier and faster than ever.
If you want to add icing to your ready-baked cookies, beat the egg whites into a meringue, add the sugar, vanilla and beat, while at the end give the desired color with the corresponding pastry color. Decorate the cookies with the icing and let it harden!
Our suggestion? The icing decorating pen 'Misty'! Using it is as simple as writing with a regular pen. Fill with icing, melted chocolate, food coloring, chocolate syrup or any other ingredient you wish and decorate your cookies as you wish!
If your style is minimal and all of the above just seems too much, decorate the cookies before putting them in the oven with NAVA's special cookie stamps! What better way to make quick and easy cookies in no time!
The final decoration of your cookies is in your hands and imagination has no limits... Are you ready to spruce up your home for Christmas?
