Fires for Saint John

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170 grams butter, room temperature
100g soft brown sugar
45g molasses (or syrup)
420g (Zeeland) flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1½ teaspoons of baking spices

Cookie cutter Fire

For the Saint John's Day Festival we bake yummie gingerbread cookies, small campfires with icing on top. In this blog you can read the recipe for the biscuits and in our next blog - which we will put online at the same time - you can read how you can make the campfires burning. Or rather how to pipe the glaze on the biscuits. :)

How to bake the gingerbread Fires

Melt the butter, sugar and syrup together on low heat.

Stir the butter mixture until all sugar has dissolved.

Let the butter/molasses mixture cool for app. 5 minutes.

In a second bowl sift flour, baking powder and spices.

Make a well in the middle.

Pour in the butter/syrup mixture.

Fold the syrup mixture into the flour mixture.

Fold it in until the mixture starts to come together.

Then knead it briefly by hand in the bowl.

Until you have kneaded a nice, smooth dough.

Wrap the dough into a beeswax cloth.

Place the dough in the fridge for 15 mins.

Roll out the dough to 1cm thickness.

Cut the fires out of the dough.

Place the biscuits on a baking tray lined with waxed paper.

Wrap the tray with the fires in the beeswax cloth.