Christmas tree with gingerbread cookies

Merry Christmas to everybody!

I hope that you will have  very nice Christmas.

One of my friends who taught me how to bake bread sent me this great recipes by e-mail. I was already into this Gingerbread tree cookies as soon as I read her email.   The icing is very good especially, and it is easy to decorate on the cookies. My 5 year-old daughter could draw it nicely,too.

Here is the recipe and the star  templates and the royal icing recipe.  But I don’t have the meringue power sugar,  She who also taught me the cookie recipe can’t get the ingredient.  She told me the great icing recipe below.

    Icing ingredients:

•   1 egg white
• 1 +1/2 cup confectioner powder sugar
• 1/8 tsp salt
• 1 tsp lemon juice

Method:

  Beat all the ingredients until foamy and done.

 I used the cookie dough recipe from here.  This gingerbread cookie dough is our family’s favorite. I may try the one that is from the gingerbread tree’s for interest someday.

I change the recipe a little bit because I don’t use baking soda in it.

Christmas tree with gingerbread cookies   (  I made 2 Christmas trees)

 Ingredients:

• 16 Tbsp butter  ( I used  homemade unsalted butter )
• 1 cup sugar
• 1  cup Grandma’s molasses
• 2 eggs
•  4 cups King Arthur All purpose flour
• 3 tsp baking powder ( I used Rumford )
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 3 tsp  baking spice mix ( I used this one. )

Method:

Prepare:  Mix all the dry ingredients in a bowl.

1. Beat the egg and sugar using a hand mixer or stand mixer until it is foamy.
2. Add the molasses and eggs, beat it again  until incorporated.
3. Add the dry ingredients and mix using a paddle or rubber spatula  like cutting vegetables until well combined.
4. Divided it into 3 balls and wrap them with plastic wrap tightly and leave them in a refrigerator for at least 2 hours.
5. Preheat 350F  and Shape: Roll it out  a 5 mm thick circle or rectangle.  For a star templates I cut it out one at time using a dough cutter to cut the shape out, which is easy to work with.
6. Bake  8-10 minutes at 350 F.   The smallest one will be 6 minutes.

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