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Secrets to the Best Gingerbread Cookies

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Get To Know Your Icing 6/10

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Get To Know Your Icing

While your cookies are fresh out of the oven and cooling, this is the time to start prepping your icing artistry. Before you start piping out icing all over your cookies, you need to make sure you're comfortable with the consistency of the icing, the piping bag or tube that you're using, and the shapes and designs that you want to create. Do some experiments on a piece of foil or wax paper to test out your skills first. (If you act quickly before the icing hardens, you can scrape it back into your collection and use it on your cookies, so that no icing goes to waste.) Then when it's showtime, you're confident and ready to start decorating like a pro!


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VIDEO: Salted Caramel Thumbprint Cookies

These salted caramel thumbprint cookies are easy to make and super delicious!

INGREDIENTS:

  • 1/4 cup / 50g of softened butter
  • 1 egg (divide the yolk and white)
  • 1/4 cup / 50g of sugar
  • Pinch of sea salt
  • 1 cup / 150g of flour
  • 1 cup / 100g of chopped nuts
  • Salted caramel
  • Melted dark chocolate

METHOD:

  1. In a bowl, mix together the butter, egg yolk, sugar, and salt.

  2. Add the flour and mix. Roll into a ball.

  3. Chill for 30 minutes.

  4. Remove from refrigerator. Divide the dough and roll into 1-inch balls.

  5. Dip each ball in egg yolk, and then roll in chopped nuts.

  6. Place on baking sheet (lined with parchment paper), and press your thumb into the center.

  7. Bake at 340°F/170°C for 12 minutes, or until golden.

  8. Remove from oven and let cool.

  9. Pour the salted caramel into the center groove,and drizzle with dark chocolate.

  10. Enjoy!