Do you feel like baking?

Te proponemos un plan repostero para este frío fin de semana: galletas de jengibre.

Posiblemente te resulten conocidas por las películas americanas. Las más famosas son las "Gingerbread man", por su forma de muñeco, pero puedes usar tu imaginación y darles la forma que quieras.  Puede ser un plan diferente para hacer con niños.

Al final de la receta, os dejamos un vídeo con un cuento popular sobre un muñequito de jengibre, para que lo disfrutéis mientas esperáis a que salgan del horno.

Enjoy your baking!!


GINGERBREAD BISCUITS:


INGREDIENTS:

• 110 g unsalted butter
• 110 g dark brown sugar
• 8 tablespoon Runny Honey
• 1 egg

• 2 tablespoon Cocoa Powder
• 450 g Plain Flour or Rye Flour
• 2 teaspoon Baking Powder
• 2 teaspoon Ground Ginger
• 2 teaspoon Cinnamon Powder
• 1/2 teaspoon Cloves

METHOD:

1. Pre heat your oven to 200º and grease a tray with butter.
2. Melt the butter and add the dark brown sugar and the runny honey, stiring the mixture. Add the rest of the ingredients. Mix again.
3. Tip the mixture out onto a board and knead it into a ball of dough.
   
4. Sprinkle some flour onto a clean, flat surface and roll out the dough. It needs to be about 1cm thick . Cut out shapes using cookie cutters and carefully lift the cookies onto the baking tray.
   
5. Bake for 10 minutes or until lightly brown around the edges.

A BIT OF HISTORY:

Gingerbread made appeared in Europe when 11th-century crusaders brought the spice from the Middle East for the rich folks' cooks to experiment with. Nowadays, gingerbread biscuits are very popular in some European countries (Germany, Poland, etc.) as well as in North America.

There is a very popular fairy tale called "The Gingerbread Man". You can watch it here: