Easy cookie recipe for 4 - 8 people, takes only 12 mins; recipe has butter, black treacle, soft light brown sugar, sea salt, egg, plain flour, bicarbonate of soda, ground cloves, ginger, cinnamon and golden caster sugar.
Gingerbread cookies
Course: Easy cookie
Servings
4 - 8
servings
Prep time
20 mins
Ingredients
- Egg: 1 medium egg
- Butter: 120g unsalted butter, softened
- Cinnamon: 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
- Ginger: 1 1/2 tsp ground ginger
- Plain Flour: 200g plain flour
- Bicarbonate Of Soda: 1/4 tsp bicarbonate of soda
- Golden Caster Sugar: 60g golden caster sugar
- Sea Salt: 1/2 tsp fine sea salt
- Black Treacle: 1 1/2 tbsp black treacle
- Ground Cloves: 1/4 tsp ground cloves
- Soft Light Brown Sugar: 170g soft light brown sugar
Directions
- Beat together the butter, treacle, brown sugar and salt in a largemixing bowl. Add the egg, then beat through all of the remaining dry ingredients apart from the caster sugar. Chill the mixture in the fridge for 1 hr.
- Heat the oven to 200C/180C fan/gas 4. Line two baking sheets with baking parchment. Roll the mixture into 20 even-sized balls (weighing for accuracy, if you like). Tip the caster sugar onto a small plate, then add each ball and roll around to coat. Space each ball out on the baking sheets. Bake for 9-10 mins until golden brown. Leave to cool completely on awire rack.
