These gingerbread cookies are soft and cakey, spicy and delicious. These are also, the easiest gingerbread cookies you will ever make!
Ingredients and Variations
Ingredients: All purpose flour, ground cinnamon, ground clove, ground ginger, ground cardamom, ground all spice, salt, butter, molasses, corn syrup, eggs, orange zest and almond extract.
Variations: Toasted chopped nuts can be added and candied citrus, 2 tbsp of cocoa powder can also be added as well as 2 tbsp of rum or orange liqeuer. Almond extract can be switched out for vanilla or orange.
Decoration: Traditionally candied citrus or nuts are used to decorate the tops but cookie sprinkles can be used also.
German Gingerbread Cookies (Lebkuchen)
Course: DessertCuisine: GermanDifficulty: Easy30
minutes3 1/2
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Ingredients
- Cookies
3/4 cup 3/4 butter, softened
1 1/3 cup 1 1/3 brown sugar, packed
2 2 large eggs
2 tbsp 2 molasses
1/3 cup 1/3 light corn syrup
1 tsp 1 almond extract
2 3/4 cups 2 3/4 all purpose flour
1 tsp 1 baking powder
1 1/2 tsp 1 1/2 ground cinnamon
1/2 tsp 1/2 ground ginger
1/8 tsp 1/8 ground clove
1/4 tsp 1/4 ground all spice
1/4 tsp 1/4 ground cardamom
zest of 1 orange
- Chocolate Glaze
1 cup 1 Semi sweet chocolate chips or chopped chocolate
1 tbsp 1 coconut oil
- Sugar Glaze
1 cup 1 powdered sugar
juice of 1 orange
2 tsp 2 milk
- Decoration
toasted nuts
candied citrus
cookie sprinkles
Directions
- Heat oven to 350°.
- Cream butter and sugar. Add eggs and extract. In a separate bowl whisk dry ingredients together. Add dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and mix until combined.
- Drop tablespoon sized dough onto a lined cookie sheet 2 inches apart.
- Bake at 350° for 10-12 minutes until set and golden. Cool on wire rack completely.
- Chocolate glaze: melt chocolate and coconut oil in 1 minute intervals in microwave and stir until smooth.
- Sugar Glaze: Whisk powdered sugar with orange juice and milk until smooth.
- Dip cookie tops in glazes and decorate. Let cookies dry before serving.
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