Malaysian Lifestyle Blog: BAKING GINGERBREAD MAN at19 Culinary @ Jalan Dungun

Love for baking? Yah.... I do have the passion for baking. Used to baked chiffon cake, butter cake and the most recent ones would be bread. Hardly baked nowadays due to time constraint and to prevent myself from over eating. LOL

Ingredients are prepacked in the quantity required.

Anyways, I have the pleasure to be invited by The Butterfly Project for a "Bake & Decorating of Gingerbread man" Its definitely my first time baking cookies! Wee... I'm so excited!

The event took place last weekend at at19Culinary, Jalan Dungun, Damansara Heights. at19culinary school caters to those interested to learn or improve their culinary skills. Classes here are kept small and hands on in a home kitchen environment so that we could recreate the recipes at home easily.There's cakes to food recipes to learned as their recipes vary weekly. We get to learn how to garnished our final creation here too. Garnishing is important because it can bring our dishes to a whole new level.

I'm sharing the recipe since it's really easy and fun to bake! So here's the ingredients :

Gingerbread (Makes 12)

Unsalted Butter - 115g, chilled & diced into a small pieces (unsalted butter from SCS brand is highly recommended) Brown Sugar - 175g (for the caramel taste and its less sweet)

Egg - 1 nos (must use Gred A)

Black Treacle - 2 tbsp

Plain Flour - 350g (Anchor brand all purpose flour highly recommended) Ground Ginger - 1 tsp

Bicarbonate Soda - 1 tsp

Vanilla Essence - 1tsp

For Royal Icing :

Icing Sugar - 250g

Egg White - 1/2 nos

Lemon Juice - 1/2 tsp

Glycerine - 1/2 tsp

Decoration :

Gummies - 30g

Silver Dragees - 10g

Candies / Chocolate Buttons - 40g

Ok.... Ingredients checked! Let's start now! First of all, preheat the oven to 180ºC. Grease three baking sheets.

Next mix flour, bicarbonate soda, ginger and diced butter till resemble fine breadcrumbs. Add sugar, egg, black treacle and form a dough.

Turn out on to a floured surface and knead until smooth. Shape into a ball, wrap in clear film (plastic wrap) and chill for 10 minutes. Roll out the dough thinly and cut using assorted shaped cutters.

Bake cookies for about 12 - 15 minutes or until pale golden.

So here are the cookies freshly out from the oven. Before we can start decorating, we must wait for it to cool down. Remove to wire racks to cool completely.