Ingredients:
- Recipe card
- Gift tags
- Gingerbread cutter
- Coloured string, baking twine or ribbon
- 1lt jar with clip-on lid
- To gift:
- 100g dark brown sugar
- 1u00bd tsp bicarbonate of soda
- 550g plain flour
- u00bd tsp salt
- u00bd tsp allspice
- u00bc tsp ground cloves
- u00bd tsp ground nutmeg
- 2tsp ground cinnamon
- 1tsp ground ginger
Method:
- A Kilner jar filled with a ready-to-bake cookie mixture of dry ingredients. Include handwritten instructions for adding butter, eggs and treacle, with baking temperature and time included.
- Combine the ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, allspice and salt. Add the spice mixture to the bottom of the jar.
- Continue layering with the flour, followed by the bicarbonate of soda and then the dark brown sugar.
- Write the following instructions on the gift tag: “Mix 125g butter, 170g black treacle and 2 large eggs. Mix in the gift jar and chill the dough in the fridge for one hour. Preheat the oven to 180˚C/160˚C fan/gas mark 4. Roll out the dough, cut out cookies and place on a parchment-lined baking tray. Bake for 8-10 minutes until the edges just begin to brown. Allow to cool completely.
- If you want to make these yummy cookies follow the recipe below;
- Combine the following dry ingredients; ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, allspice and salt. Then mix together with the flour with the bicarbonate of soda. Add in the brown sugar once all mixed together set aside.
- In a separate bowl mix 125g butter, 170g black treacle and 2 large eggs together and then combine with the dry ingredients above. Once all mixed together, chill the dough in the fridge for one hour.
- Preheat the oven to 180˚C/160˚C fan/gas mark 4. Roll out the dough, cut out cookies and place on a parchment-lined baking tray. Bake for 8-10 minutes until the edges just begin to brown. Allow to cool.
