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Gingerbread Dough

Name: Gingerbread Dough
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 15 min
Cuisine: Other
Ingredients: 500 g Mix It Farina; 150 ml dark syrup; 150 g sugar; 1/2 tsp salt; 1 tsp vanilla sugar; 8 tsp gingerbread spice mix; 200 g butter; 2 eggs; 2 tsp guar gum; 2 tsp baking powder

50 people

275-285 min

What could be more festive than gingerbread cookies? This gingerbread dough makes the house smell amazing and it’s perfect for Christmas.

Cook

Preparation

in 25-30 minutes

Cooking

in 10-15 minutes

Cooling

in 240 minutes

Temperature

180 °C

Stir the dark syrup in a heavy-bottomed pot over medium heat.
Add the sugar, vanilla sugar, salt, and gingerbread spice.
Stir until the sugar has melted, then add the chopped butter and stir until the butter is melted.
Now remove the pot from the heat and let the mixture to cool down a bit.
Beat in the eggs one at a time to the cooled mixture.
Combine together in a separate bowl baking powder, guar gum, flour and mix them together.
Now add the flour mix to the cooled mixture.
Mix the dough carefully with a wooden spoon and wrap it in a plastic wrap.
The dough will be soft at this point, but it’ll firm up in the fridge. Let it chill in the fridge at least 4 hours or overnight.
Before baking, take the dough out of the fridge and let it stand at room temperature until the dough is rollable and soft.
Heat the oven to 180°C. Now flour your hands, rolling pin and work surface with flour. Roll out the dough thinly and use cookie cutters to cut out shapes.
Bake them about 10-15 minutes (depending on the size of the cutters you use, they might need a few minutes more or less cooking in the oven).
Once cooled down, frost and decorate as you desire.

Ingredients

500

Mix It Farina

150

dark syrup

150

sugar

1/2

tsp

salt

tsp

vanilla sugar