Hi and Welcome to Scrummmy Friday’s
#Scrummmyfridays
Each week I will post a quick and easy recipe for you to bake and enjoy a yummmy treat over the weekend!
My first recipe to share with you is…..
Halloween Ginger Shortbread.
This is a family friendly recipe, so why not all try!
Ingredients for Cookies
200g Unsalted Butter
200g Light brown Sugar
1 Medium Egg
400g Plain Flour
2tsp Ground Ginger
1/2 tsp Cinnamon
Pinch of Salt
Tools
Baking trays
Baking/Grease proof paper
Rolling pin
Ginger bread people cutters
Method
Pre heat oven to 160 Deg C
1 – Ensuring butter is at room temp before starting (makes it easier to mix) Place the butter in a bowl
2- Add light brown sugar and beat until well combined
3- Add beaten egg and combine well
4- Add flour, spices and salt. Mix a little at a time with a spoon and when the mix become to hard to work with the spoon, finish off with using your hands, by kneading well. Keep working at it until the mixture comes together and forms a ball.
5- Place on a floured worktop and knead some more until smooth.
6- Rollout until it is 5mm thick (Keep moving the dough around between rolls to stop it from sticking to your worktop)
7- Cut out shapes and place on the baking trays lined with baking/Grease proof paper.
8- Place in the oven for 10-15mm or until the edges are turning a golden brown colour.
9- Leave on the tray for 10mins (if you try lifting before cooling on trays they will break) once cooled, lift them off and place on a wire rack until completely cool (They will harden up as they cool)
To Decorate
Royal icing
Water
Piping bag or food/freezer bag
1- Put royal icing in a cup and add a tiny amount of water at a time. (The consistency you want is like toothpaste)
2- Put icing into a piping bag or food/freezer bag (just use one corner of the food bag and snip the corner off to the desired size)
3- Pipe on your halloween monsters outline.
4- For the flood icing (this is to fill the inside of your lined monsters) use more royal icing but this time make it the consistency of cream.
5- using a spoon and cocktail stick, pour a little icing on and spread it around until it fills the cookie and allow to dry.
Be imaginative and use food colourings and decorations to create different spooky designs.
Please show me what you bake, I look forward to seeing all your wonderful designs and creations
Em X
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