Consumption

Gingerbread biscuits are seen more and more in this period: in the display window of bakers, but also as a decoration in the Christmas tree in the shape of a star, a Christmas tree, a little man ... They are often decorated with icing and sweets.

These biscuits are hugely popular abroad, especially in America and United Kingdom. The flavour reminds us a little of speculoos, but this cake owes its name to the fact that the rhizome of the ginger plant is used as flavouring (in powder form).

They are better known as ginger biscuits. Ginger biscuits are often eaten for breakfast or as a snack. The biscuits are massively served at Christmas time, but nowadays you can find them all year round.

Fancy making these yourself sometime? Possibly with the kids? Success guaranteed and not at all difficult to prepare!

A tasteful recipe
Needed for about 20 biscuits:
300 g flour - 115 g butter - 160 g brown sugar - 160 g syrup (e.g. sugar syrup or pancake syrup) - 1 egg - 1 tsp ginger powder - 1 tsp cinnamon powder - 1 tsp nutmeg - a pinch of salt - for decoration: icing, sugar sticks ...

Here's how to proceed
Mix softened butter, sugar and sugar syrup until creamy; add egg and mix well.
In another bowl, mix together flour, ginger powder, cinnamon powder, nutmeg and salt. Add this in particles to the other mixture. Mix everything well and then spoon it into a plastic wrap. Now leave to set in the fridge for at least 4 hours!
Preheat the oven to 160°. Roll out the dough with some flour and cut out the gingerbread shapes. Make holes with a skewer so that you can also hang the biscuits. Place the biscuits on a baking tray with baking paper and bake in the oven for 15 minutes. Let them cool down.
And now for the best part: draw faces and other fun decorations using icing sugar. Now just stick the ribbon through the holes and you're done!

Also fun to give as a present!

(FVDV for Tagtik/Illustration picture: Unsplash)