Gingerbread Snowflakes

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Gingerbread Snowflakes
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Difficulty:
easy
Difficulty
Preparation:
1 hr
Preparation
ready in 13 h. 20 min.
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Ingredients

for
40
For dough
250 grams honey
250 grams brown sugar
150 grams butter
100 grams ground almonds
400 grams Pastry flour
1 tsp cinnamon
¼ tsp ground cloves
¼ tsp ground Cardamom
¼ tsp ground Mace
¼ tsp ground allspice
1 tsp Lemon peel
1 Tbsp Cocoa
1 egg
1 tsp potatoes
Pastry flour (for rolling dough)
For decoration
200 grams powdered sugar
lemon juice (as desired)
various Food coloring (as desired)
How healthy are the main ingredients?
honeysugaralmondcinnamonclovesMace

Preparation steps

1.

For the dough, warm the honey, sugar and butter in a pan stirring continuously until the sugar is dissolved. Pour into a bowl and let cool.

2.

Combine almonds, flour, spices, cocoa, lemon zest, and baking soda in a bowl. Whisk egg into the butter mixture. Stir the butter mixture into the flour mixture and knead thoroughly, using a dough hook if desired. Continue kneading until the dough is no longer sticky and takes on a shine, adding extra flour as needed. Cover the dough and refrigerate overnight. 

3.

The next day, preheat the oven to 180°C (approximately 350°F). Dust a work surface with flour and roll out the dough out thinly, about 3 mm (approximately 1/4 inch). Cut out using snowflake cookie cutters, or other shapes as desired. Place cookies on a parchment-lined baking sheet and bake for 18-20 minutes. Cool cookies on a wire rack. 

4.

To decorate, stir the powdered sugar with enough lemon juice and the desired color, if using, until smooth and creamy. Pour the icing into a freezer bag, cut a small hole from one corner, and decorate the gingerbread cookies. Let the icing dry. The cookies can be eaten or used as ornaments as desired.