Homemade gingerbread men – a delicious Christmas

Christmas cookies and especially those derived from this spice, ginger, make both children and adults more impregnated with these special dates. We are going to tell you how to make gingerbread figures with the help of the little ones in the house. This will make them love to do this activity again every year, where they can also develop their creativity when decorating them.

Recipe

We will need 4 cups of flour, 1 teaspoon of baking powder, 1 teaspoon of ground ginger, 2 teaspoons of ground cinnamon, 1/4 teaspoon of ground cloves, 1 cup of room temperature butter, 1 cup of brown sugar, 1 large egg and 1/2 cup of honey.

Now we mix the dry ingredients well. We beat the butter with the sugar until it dissolves completely. We incorporate the honey and finally the mixture of the flour with the spices. We have to get a homogeneous mixture that is not too sticky.

Place the dough in an airtight plastic container. We will reserve in a cool place, but not in a refrigerator, between 2 and 6 hours. Then roll out the dough on parchment paper with the rolling pin between two sheets of greaseproof paper.

It is frozen before cutting the molds with the gingerbread cutters.

Once cut with the molds, we will put the pieces on baking paper.

The oven preheated to 180º we will bake for 13 to 15 minutes for large pieces, or 6 to 8 minutes for smaller pieces.

Gingerbread cookies decoration

The funniest part is here, which is decorating the gingerbread cookies, especially the gingerbread men.

We will use royal icing and pastry sleeves, or pastry pencils we will give free rein to the imagination.

Let each one develop their imagination with the ingredients that they might like the most … You can use fruits, chocolates, nutella, syrups … Which one is your favorite?