Recipe: Delicious Star shaped ginger cookies

Star shaped ginger cookies. Using a cookie cutter cut the cookies and place on lightly greased baking sheet and chill until it hardens. Our star shaped gingerbread cookie recipe is just the right twist on a classic cookie. Cinnamon, ginger, cloves and molasses deliver that rich, spicy taste but we added candied ginger to tie in the flavors. It's usually found in the dried fruit aisle of local grocery stores—if you don't see it just ask. Refrigerate remaining dough until ready to roll.

Portioning out drop cookie dough is pretty straightforward. Past generations of bakers used a couple of tablespoons. Today, many of us use a cookie scoop. You can have Star shaped ginger cookies using 12 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Star shaped ginger cookies

1. You need 550 g of all purpose flour.
2. You need 100 g of brown sugar(add upto 150 if you wish).
3. Prepare 10 g of baking powder.
4. It's 1 tsp of ginger.
5. Prepare 1 of egg.
6. You need 1 tsp of cinnamon.
7. It's 200 g of margarine.
8. You need 100 g of melted white chocolate.
9. It's 1 tsp of vanilla essence.
10. Prepare 1 Tbsp of black treacle(optional).
11. You need of Tools.
12. You need of Star shaped cutters.

Mix the vanilla and egg with a fork in a small bowl. Remove to wire racks to cool. Cut-out sugar cookies are the quintessential holiday cookie. You'll find them on all most all dessert trays and in every cookie exchange… not to mention, Santa enjoys them as well!

Star shaped ginger cookies step by step

1. Cream margarine and sugar. Add the egg and vanilla essence and treacle..
2. Add the melted chocolate as you beat more..
3. In another bowl, combine flour, baking powder, ginger and cinnamon..
4. Mix the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients with hands until you get a dough..
5. Roll out your cookie dough and cut into star shapes of different sizes..
6. Lift them carefully place them in a lined baking sheet..
7. In a 160 degrees pre heated oven, bake for 20 to 25mins or until the edges start to brown..
8. Let them cool..
9. Enjoy with a glass of milk..

I don't know about you, but in the past I've tried numerous sugar cookie recipes and none of them were perfect. This year I decided to go a little bigger: instead of making small cut-out cookies, I made a whole cookie TREE out of star-shaped gingerbread cookies. The cookies are covered with a simple powdered sugar glaze, some sparkling sprinkles along the edges, and stacked more than a foot high on a serving plate. Beat in the egg, then stir in the water and molasses. Gradually stir the sifted ingredients into the molasses mixture.