Gingerbread biscuits : recipe from Rosalind of bake Off Italia

As you have already understood I love Christmas and everything that concerns it just like the famous Gingerbread cookies!
I took the recipe directly from Rosalind, the competitor of the fifth edition of Bake Off Italia, so I went on the safe side, plus it gave me some advice to make a perfect icing for decoration!

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I made a small variation about the recipe. Since I did not have brown sugar, I decided to put 150g of granulated sugar instead of 100g of caster + 100g of brown sugar.

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Ingredients for cookies:

• 250 g cold butter
• a pinch of salt
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 570 g flour 00
• 150 g granulated sugar
• 100 g liquid honey
• 30 ml orange juice
• 2 tablespoons cinnamon powder
• 2 tablespoons ginger powder
• 1 teaspoon cloves powder
• cutter

METHOD:

1. Melt the sugar with honey, orange juice and spices in a large pot and bring to a boil.
2. Turn off the heat and add the butter cut into small pieces. Add the bicarbonate and mix quickly.
3. Pour the mixture into a bowl and let it cool. Then add the flour and the salt and knead.
4. Store the dough in the fridge for 2 hours.
5. Then roll out the dough with a rolling pin until it reaches a thickness of about 3 mm. Cut the biscuits with the shapes you prefer and place them on a baking tray lined with baking paper.
6. With a toothpick, make a small hole on each biscuit at the apex, in case you want to hang them on the tree with a ribbon.
7. Bake for 10 minutes at 170 ° C.
8. Once cooked and cooled decorate with real icing.

Ingredients for real icing:

• 250g sifted icing sugar to remove lumps
• 35 / 40g pasteurized albumen
• gel dye for icing

METHOD:

1. Pour the egg white and sugar into a bowl and work at a minimum speed for 5 minutes.
2. Depending on your preference (if you want the most liquid ice), add a few drops of water.
3. Color the real ice at your leisure using gel dyes.
4. Once the consistency and the desired color are obtained, you can decorate the cookies!

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If you want to give these cookies, wrap them with transparent paper and a nice Christmas bow! Always remember to write all the ingredients on a label to be tied to the package!

I hope you enjoyed this recipe, let me know in the comments if you tried to make them!