Stuffed gingerbread cookies & small gingerbread home

Name: Stuffed gingerbread cookies & small gingerbread home
Total time: 5400 s
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: 1 cup maida; 1 cup atta; 1/2 tsp baking soda; 1 tsp baking powder; 1/4 tsp cinnamon; ¼ tsp ginger powder; 1/2 cup softened butter; 1/2 cup brown sugar; 1/4 cup jaggery; 1 tsp orange zest; 1 tsp vanilla; 3+ ½ tbsp warm milk; 1 cup Fine grinded Sugar(icing sugar); 2 tbsp Lemon juice; 1 tbsp cornstarch powder; 1-2 tbsp Milk; 200 gms Dark chocolate; 100 gms Heavy room/milk creme; 1 tbsp Orange zest

Khyati Mehta @khyatis_cookstory

Ginger bread cookies are favourite during christmas & year end celebrations. I tried to make it in eggless version & stuffed cookies with chocolate orange ganache filling to enhanced the taste & it turned out so good!You can even make ginger bread house as well from the same dough.Also sharing with you easy tip to make eggless royal icing at home. Sending it for #2021challenge

Khyati Mehta @khyatis_cookstory

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Ingredients

1 hr 30 mins

4 servings

1 cupmaida
1 cupatta
1/2 tspbaking soda
1 tspbaking powder
1/4 tspcinnamon
¼ tsp ginger powder
1/2 cupsoftened butter
1/2 cupbrown sugar
1/4 cupjaggery
1 tsporange zest
1 tspvanilla
3+ ½ tbsp warm milk
For Royal icing-
1 cupFine grinded Sugar(icing sugar)
2 tbspLemon juice
1 tbspcornstarch powder
1-2 tbspMilk
Chocolate ganache for stuffing cookies(optional)
200 gmsDark chocolate
100 gmsHeavy room/milk creme
1 tbspOrange zest

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Steps

1 hr 30 mins

1

Pre-heat the oven to 170*C
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Mix brown sugar and jaggery in a pan & cook on a slow flame until jaggery melts. Remove from pan & let it cool.Do not overheat.
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Cream the butter in a bowl. Make sure it is soften enough or at room temperature.Add in maida, atta, baking powder, baking soda and the spices and mix well.
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Stir in vanillaa and orange zest for flavours.
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Add jaggery & sugar melted mix in to aata.combine everything well togather. Do not add all jaggery_sugar liquid at a time. Just add little at a time & make dough.Dough should not be too tight or soft. However after adding all the sugar_jaggery mixture in case dough is tight,then add little warm milk & form the dough.(milk is totally optional)
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Cling wrap the dough and refrigerate for 10-15 minutes until it is tough enough to work with.Roll out the dough between two sheets of parchment paper, into a ¼ of an inch thick base
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Use a cookie cutter to cut the dough into the desired shape for cookies & ginger bread home.
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Bake for 10-12 minutes until the edges become golden-brown. Let them cool completely before trying to lift them off the tray.
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Now Prepare royal icing
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In a bowl take a cup of icing sugar. Add 1 tbsp of cornstarch.
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Add 1 tbsp of milk & mix. If needed add another tbsp of milk & mix.
Now add lemon juice & mix well to have lumpfree mixture. Royal icing is ready to use.Icing should not be too much runny or thick.
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Add food color as per your choice. Fill in the piping bag & decorate ginger bread cookies. Make sure cookies are cooled completely before decorating.With same icing you can decorate the ginger bread house as well. It will take at least 2 hrs to dry out your icing.
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In order to combine/ stick ginger bread house you can use hot melted chocolate & stick parts together. Allow it to rest for at least 1 hr.
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For stuffing cookies next step is to make chocolate ganache.however, you can enjoy cookies as it is. But I made it with stuffing.
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In a bowl break 200 gms of dark chocolate in small pieces.
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In microwave take heavy milk creme & warm it for 1 minute.
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Add warm milk creme to chocolate bowl. Cover the bowl & let it mix for 5 mins
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After 5 mins, with spoon mix chocolate & milk creme. You can see melted chocolate liquid form.
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Add 1tbsp of orange zest to this.
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Your chocolate ganache creme is ready to use. Now let it cool for at least 1 hr in room temperature.
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After 1 hr ganache will be in semi solid form.you can put this creme stuffing in 1 cookie & press another cookie on the top
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Repeat it for each cookie.your stuffed cookies are ready with choco ganache filling.
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All together spices,cookies crunch & chocolate gives you burst of flavours in your mouth.🙂