Do you want to learn how to make some delicious gingerbread men? They are the traditional Christmas cookies, aromatic and curiously shaped. Discover the recipe.
Ginger bread cookies are, together with nougat, one of the most characteristic sweets of the Christmas season. They basically consist of a paste made with a mixture of flour, egg, butter and sugar that has previously been given a most characteristic humanoid shape.
Over time, it has become a great way to welcome Christmas while surrounding ourselves with our loved ones with a glass of milk or a cup of hot chocolate, without a doubt two perfect companions for gingerbread cookies.
Especially for the little ones, who can have a really good time cooking these sweets with their own hands and then see how they cook little by little in the oven of their own home. Is there a more fun activity for them during their Christmas holidays?
The origin of gingerbread cookies dates back to the 10th century
But when did the consumption of these cookies become popular? I’m sure many of you will ask. Well, it would be necessary to go back to the distant tenth century, when Gregory Nilopolis, a monk of Armenian origin, began to create his own cookies from the oven of his religious convention so that poor and orphaned children had something to eat during Christmas.
From there, its acceptance and consumption began to grow like foam. In fact, in the sixteenth century there were many monarchs and nobles who gave gingerbread cookies to all their friends and friends of the nobility.
A clear example of this was seen with Queen Elizabeth I of England, who was delighted with the taste of these cookies, which she began to give to all the members of the Court as the Christmas Easter dates approached.
Ginger bread man recipe. To lick your fingers!
Surely after reading all these lines you have begun to make your mouth water. And the truth is that we do not blame you for it! At Natursan we also declare ourselves to be unconditional fans of any type of Christmas sweet, always taking them with some moderation of course.
For this reason, through the following lines we are going to tell you how to prepare these gingerbread cookies directly from your home. Do you like the idea? Well, first of all, you are going to need the following ingredients.
Ingredients:
- 150 grams of butter
- 100 grams of brown sugar
- 300 grams of flour
- 1 egg
- 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
- 1 tablespoon ginger powder
- 1 tablespoon baking soda
Once you have all these ingredients, you will only have to carefully follow all the steps that we are going to describe below.
Preparation of the gingerbread men:
- We take a deep bowl and add the flour, the tablespoon of baking soda, salt, cinnamon, Ginger along with all the brown sugar. After this, add the semi-melted butter with the beaten egg.
- We beat all these ingredients with the help of a rod for a couple of minutes until we get a homogeneous mass. Sprinkle a little more flour on it and stretch it out on a wooden surface with the help of a rolling pin.
- Next, we will proceed to cut this dough to our liking or using molds with Christmas motifs. This is where we can give our imagination a little free rein to create the shape we want. And if it is in the company of the little ones, then much better!
- Finally, it only remains to put the cookie dough in a preheated oven at a temperature of 180 degrees for about 20 minutes, until they are well browned on the outer layer. We can give the final touch with a little chocolate in a bain-marie or sprinkle more sugar to our liking.
