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Classic Gingerbread Cookie Recipe – Easy No-fail Recipe!

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Christmas is just around the corner, and one of my favorite holiday recipes is making its debut once again! This gingerbread cookie recipe was long lost on our blog and mistakenly deleted years ago! One of our regular readers wrote to us and managed to track down our recipe that was re-posted on another blog. Now we are back with the original recipe that is tried and tested, and looks like it is a favorite among many of our readers. If you are looking for the perfect gingerbread recipe that is simple, easy, and no-fuss – this is it! Keep reading and happy baking!

Classic Gingerbread Cookie Recipe with Icing! – Easy No-fail Recipe!

 
Ingredients:
 
  •  Melted butter, to grease
  •  125g butter, room temp
  •  1/2 cup brown sugar
  •  1/2 cup golden syrup
  •  1 egg, separated
  •  2 1/2 cups plain flour
  •  1 tbsp ground ginger
  •  1 tsp mixed spice
  •  1 tsp baking soda
  •   Plain flour, to dust
  •   1 cup pure icing sugar, sifted
  •   liquid food coloring
Instructions:
 
  1. Preheat oven to 180C and lightly grease 2 baking trays with melted butter.
  2. In a mixing bowl using an electric mixer, beat butter and sugar until pale and creamy. Slowly add in golden syrup and only the egg yolk, and keep beating until well incorporated.
  3. Stir in flour, ginger, mixed spice and baking soda.
  4. Turn dough out onto a lightly floured surface and knead until dough is smooth. Press dough into a disc shape and cover with plastic wrap. Place dough in fridge to cool for 30 minutes. Cool dough will help your gingerbread shapes hold their form until they are placed in the oven to bake.
  5. To make icing, using a mixing bowl and electric mixer, beat egg white until soft peaks for. Gradually add icing sugar and beat until stiff peaks form.
  6. Divide icing among as many bowls as the number of color you plan on using to decorate your cookies. Add a few drops of food coloring to each icing to get your desired color. Place the bowls in the fridge.
  7. Place dough between 2 sheets of baking paper and roll out until about 4mm thick. Use your cookie cutters to cut out shapes. Place the shapes on baking trays about 3 cm apart.
  8. Bake cookies for 10 minutes or until slightly golden/brown. Remove and transfer to a rack to cool. You can also place them in the fridge to cool off faster!
  9. Place prepared icing in small plastic bags and cut a small hole in the corner of each bag. Pipe icing over cookie to decorate as you wish!

Kolacky – Kolache Cookies – European Holiday Cookies

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You can make this traditional European cookie during the holidays or even for an all year round desert. Filled with sweet fruit preserves and yeast flavored dough, it makes a great  cookie that lasts long and goes perfectly well with your morning coffee or afternoon tea break. 

Traditional European Kolache Cookies

Yields 24
Yeast flavored dough rolled and cut filled with fruit preserves for a yummy holiday or any time of year cookie.

Ingredients:

Cookie

  1. 3 cups all-purpose flour
  2. 1 cup Butter, softened
  3. 1/4 cup sugar
  4. 1/2 teaspoon salt
  5. 1 (1/4-ounce) package active dry yeast
  6. 1/2 cup warm milk (105 to 115°F)
  7. 1 Egg
  8. 1 teaspoon vanilla
  9. 1/2 cup raspberry jam or any jam of your choice (a thicker jam works better than a runny one)
  10. 1 Land O Lakes® All-Natural Egg, well beaten

Glaze

  1. 2/3 cup powdered sugar
  2. 1 teaspoon almond extract
  3. 2 to 3 teaspoons milk
Instructions:
 
  1. Heat oven to 350°F. Combine flour, butter, sugar and salt in large bowl. Beat at low speed until mixture resembles coarse crumbs.
  2. Dissolve yeast in warm milk in small bowl. Stir in 1 egg and vanilla. Add milk mixture to flour mixture. Beat at low speed until well mixed.
  3. Divide dough in half. Roll out dough on lightly floured surface, one-half at a time, to 1/8 to 1/4-inch thickness. Cut dough into 3-inch squares; top each with 1 teaspoon jam Bring up 2 opposite corners of each square to center; pinch tightly to seal.
  4. Place 2 inches apart onto greased cookie sheets; brush with beaten egg. Bake 10-14 minutes or until golden brown. Cool completely.
  5. Combine powdered sugar, almond extract and enough milk for desired glazing consistency in small bowl. Drizzle over cooled cookies..