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Simple gingerbread cookies

Ingredients
 
250 g sugar
200 g syrup
2 Tbsp cinnamon
1 tsp ginger
1 tsp cloves
1/2 tsp pepper
2 tsp baking soda
250 g butter
3 eggs
800 g flour

powdered sugar
1 Tbsp lemon juice
1 Tbsp warm water

 
Preparation

Put the sugar and syrup together in a large pot and heat gently. Add the spices and mix everything well.

Now add the baking soda to the warm mixture and stir everything quickly until the mixture bubbles.

Put the butter in a mixing bowl, pour the warm mixture from the pot over it and stir until the butter has completely melted.

Then stir in the eggs.

Finally add the flour and work until the dough is nice and smooth.

Cover the bowl with the dough with cling film and place in the fridge overnight.

The next day, preheat the oven to 400 °F (200 °C) upper/lower heat.

Roll out the dough as thinly as possible on baking paper with a rolling pin. If necessary, add a little more flour to the baking paper if the dough is otherwise too sticky. Cut out the gingerbread cookies using cookie cutters.

Then place the gingerbread on a baking tray lined with baking paper and bake in a preheated oven at 400 °F (200 °C) upper and lower heat for approx. 5 - 10 minutes (depending on size).

Then let the gingerbread cookies cool down well.

Finally, mix the powdered sugar with the lemon juice and the warm water until a smooth icing is formed and spread it over the gingerbread.

[Translated from here.]