GINGERBREAD ANGELS || BLOGMAS

You Need:

• 145g Unsalted Butter

• 150g Light or Dark Brown Sugar 

• 200g Molasses 

• 2 Large Eggs 

• 1 TSP Vanilla Essence 

• 370g Plain Flour

• 1 TSP Baking Soda 

• Pinch of Salt 

• 1 TBSP Ground Ginger 

• 1 TBSP Ground Cinnamon 

• 1/2 TSP Allspice 

• 4 TBSP Golden Syrup

Instructions:

- In a large bowl beat the butter for 1 minute with an electric whisk until completely smooth. Add the brown sugar and molasses to the butter, and mix until it is combined. Then beat in the eggs and vanilla essence until the mixture looks creamy and there are no sugar lumps. I forgot to get rid of all the lumps of hardened sugar, and well parts of the biscuit was particularly sweet.

- In a separate large bowl, whisk together all the dry ingredients; the flour, baking soda, salt, ginger, cinnamon and allspice. Add this mixture to the wet ingredients sensibly, adding in a quarter first and mixing it, then adding in another quarter. Once you have mixed all the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients, add the golden syrup and mix it in too. 

- At this point, the dough should be thick and slightly sticky. At his point you could either 

a) divide the dough in half and wrap each half in clingfilm and then chill the dough for +2hours 

or b) don't bother because ain't nobody got time for that and continue with the recipe.

- Preheat the oven to 350°F or 177°C and line 3 large baking sheets with parchment paper.

- Take a half of the dough and begin to roll it out with a rolling pin, until the dough is 1/4 inch thick. THEN GO CRAZY WITH YOUR COOKIE CUTTERS! I chose some festive angels and Christmas trees, but you can choose whatever takes your fancy. Place these on a baking tray about an inch apart (but don't worry, the cookies don't grow too much) and do the same with the other half of dough.

- BAKE! for 8-9 minutes.

- Before you start to decorate them (preferably with royal icing) I would really suggest waiting until the cookies are cold as otherwise the icing will simply melt and you don't want that! My sister and I went a bit wild with the icing and unfortunately I don't have the photos to share with you, but we iced them to look like Victoria Secret Angels!