Gingerbread cookies

Ingredients for 4 people:
700 g white flour 00
3 egg yolks
175 g of butter
175 g sugar
50 g of honey
2 tablespoons of sweetened cocoa
half a spoon of ginger powder
half a spoon of baking powder
milk
For the Icing
20 g of water
20 g lemon juice
250 g icing sugar

Here's how to prepare gingerbread cookies. Pour flour, sugar, baking powder, powdered ginger, sweetened cocoa, melted butter, honey and 3 egg yolks into a large bowl.

Mix the ingredients by adding the milk gradually until you get an elastic dough with a consistency similar to shortcrust pastry. Leave to rest in the fridge for an hour or so.

Roll out the dough with a rolling pin - half a centimeter thick it will be fine - and cut out the molds with your favorite shapes: in addition to the men you can make stars, hearts, trees and everything you want. Remember to make a small hole at the top of the cookie so that you can then insert the string that will allow you to attach it to the Christmas tree.

System of baking paper in a pan and spread the prepared forms, bake at 180 ° C for about 15 '.

When the biscuits have taken color, remove them from the oven and let them cool before decorating with the glaze.

To prepare the glaze mix water and lemon juice, then bring to the boil in a saucepan; Pour the icing sugar into a bowl and add the lemon and water mix well and little by little. You can add, as desired, the food coloring.

Insert a lanyard in the hole if you want to attach the cookies to the Christmas tree.