Shopping list
100g light brown soft sugar
100ml treacle
100g butter, room temperature
1 large free-range organic egg
300g plain flour, sifted with
1-2 tablespoons gingerbread spices
½ teaspoon baking soda
¼ teaspoon sea salt
Royal icing
1 sachet (10g) organic egg white powder
75ml cold water
300g icing sugar + extra
1 teaspoon lemon juice
During the Christmas season, we're baking biscuits, of course! We have two beautiful cookie cutters featuring Amsterdam Canal Houses. Isn't that fun? We'll get started right away! The gingerbread recipe is very easy, and the biscuits are quickly baked.
Place the dough in the refrigerator to allow the flavours of the spices to blend with the dough. This takes a minimum of at least 4 hours. Then, once the cookies are cut out, you can bake them. But...we let them stay in the refrigerator overnight to ensure the houses don't run out. So keep that in mind!
How to bake Amsterdam Canal Houses
Mix it together until it is well combined and creamy.
Add the egg and whip it into the mixture.
Sift into another bowl the flour with gingerbread spices and salt.
Stir it together until well combined.
Stir in the baking soda as well.
Add the flour mixture in 3 parts.
Fold in the flour mixture.
Add more flour and fold in again.
Add the last of the flour.
Knead it briefly by hand.
Cover the dough and place it in the fridge for at least 4 hours.
Place waxed paper on the baking tray, knead the dough briefly and roll it out to 0.5cm thickness
Cut out the houses using the cookie cutters.
Place the houses on the baking tray and cover them.
Let the biscuits sit overnight in the refrigerator.
Day 2 - How to bake the biscuits
Bake the biscuits for +/- 15 minutes.
Leave on the tray for 10 minutes.
Then cool on a wire rack.
Meanwhile bake the second batch of biscuits.
Make Royal Icing from the recipe, scoop it into a piping bag and cut off a tiny tip
With this + 75ml water you make Royal Icing.
Pipe a line around the biscuit.
If you fill the windows immediately they run.
Allow the windows to set a minute and then fill them.
You don't need perfect houses, but make them as neat as you can :))
Already wishing you all a wonderful Christmas!