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One of my favorite Christmas activities is to make gingerbread cookies! The recipie below is perfect for making gingerbread cookies and also if you want to challenge yourself, make a gingerbread hous out of.

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The video bellow will show you how to make the gingerbread cookies, with rolling out the dough and making shapes of the dough.

Indgidients

150 ml water
400 ml granulated sugar
100 ml syrup
300 gram margarin/butter
1 tbs cinnamon
1 tbs cloves
1 tbs ginger
1000 ml flour
2 1/2 tsp baking powder

Directions

1. Mix the sugar and water together in a pan and boil it.

2. After boiling the water and sugar, put it in a bowl. Thereafter cut the margarine/butter in to small squares and add it into the mix together with the syrup and spices.

3. Mix flour and the baking soda together in a seperate bowl. Then add it little by little to the other mix. Make sure you stirr it thoroughly, you don’t want any lumps in it.

4. When you’ve stirr it well enough, put the dough in plastic wrap and leave it in the fridge for a couple of hours. For best result, leave the dough in the fridge for 24 hours.

5. When you take the dough out of the fridge it will be very hard, therefore you need to knead the dough. Take a small piece of the dough, put a small amount of flour on the working area so that the dough will not stick to it. Use a rolling pin to roll the dough out and make sure it’s very thin. The cookies will rise in the oven so if you want thin gingerbread cookies you need to roll the dough very thin.

6. When you have the dough as thin as you want it you can use shapes to cut the cookies out or you can use your imagination and create whatever shape you want with a knife.

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7. When you’re done, put the cookies on the baking sheet on the pan. Put the pan in the oven for about 5-8 minutes.

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8. Take the cookies out and let them sit for 5 minutes before taking them off the pan. Enjoy your homebaked gingerbread cookies with a cold glass of milk!

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