Gingerbread cookies

Hello my beloved family of steemit, Merry Christmas! I hope you have spent a few nice days with your loved ones, today I bring you a very simple recipe that turns out to be a classic recipe at this time, most of us know the gingerbread but not many know its taste because here in latin America is not very cookie.

But despite not being well known, I was always very curious to prepare it so this Christmas I gathered all the ingredients and I really prepare them. I recommend them they are delicious apart from when you are baking them all your kitchen smells like Christmas and puts you in the mood, continue reading if you want to know how they are made.

Ingredients:

• 1 tablespoon of cinnamon
• 1 and 1/2 tablespoon of ginger powder.
• 1 teaspoon ground cloves.
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 300 grams of wheat flour.
• 1 egg.
• 1/2 cup of molasses.
• 100 grams of butter.
• 100 grams of sugar.1 tablespoon of baking powder.
• 1/2 spoonful of salt

Preparation:

Mix: sugar, egg, molasses and butter with the help of an electric mixer and mix until everything is integrated, the mixture will look cut but do not worry.

In a bowl add all the dry ingredients: flour, baking powder, salt, sweet cloves, cinnamon and ginger. Then add them little by little to the mixture of egg, butter and molasses.

Knead until the mixture is compact, it is not necessary that you knead for a long time, it should only be compact with the ingredients well integrated. Put the dough in the refrigerator for 1 hour wrapped in plastic paper.

Spread the dough on a flat, floured surface, spread until it is about 1 cm thick.Cut each cookie with the gingerbread cutter or cutter of your choice. ![hombres.png]()

Place your cookies in a greased and floured baking tray. Bake for 20 minutes at 180 degrees or until golden brown.

Unmold and let them cool for at least an hour before eating. Also, you can save them and eat them whenever you want they can last a week.

I hope you liked this recipe and that you try it at home, it's very simple as you saw and it will not take you any time to do it. These cookies are perfect at any time of the day so they will come in handy at all times. As I always invite you to participate in the comments section, knowing what you think of my recipes makes me very happy, just as I invite you to follow me if you want to read new and delicious recipes every week. Up to the proximal one!