Gingerbread biscuits
Instructions
Melt the honey and sugar and butter, remove from heat and continue to stir until the mixture has cooled.
Blend eggs, honey mix together with salt, lime and finely chopped orange peel, cinnamon, ground cloves and Mace.
Mix the flour with the baking powder, add to the mixture and knead dough with your hands.
Roll out the dough with a rolling pin on a sheet an inch thick and cut into biscuits of various shapes (circles, rectangles, rhombi).
Place on buttered plate and cook in the oven at 240° c for 15 minutes.
Remove them from the oven and let them cool.
Prepare the frosting.
Melt the chocolate and milk chocolate with the butter in a double boiler and cover with frosting cookies.
Ingredients and dosing for 4 persons
- 1000 g of flour
- 125 g of butter
- 500 g of honey
- 250 g of sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 pinch of salt
- 30 g of candied citron
- 30 g of candied orange peel
- 2 teaspoons of cinnamon powder
- 1/2 teaspoon of cloves ground
- 1/2 teaspoon of mace (nutmeg flower powder)
- 1 1/2 sachet of baking powder
- For the frosting:
- 100 G = = Chocolate
- 100 g of milk chocolate
- 20 g of butter