Gemmerkoekies
Serves 24 20 min prep 15 min cook
Traditional ginger biscuits flavoured with cinnamon and golden syrup and baked until crisp.
Ingredients
- 280 g cake flour
- 420 g caster sugar
- 2.5 ml baking soda
- 5 ml ground cinnamon
- 1 pinch salt
- 10 ml ground ginger
- 125 g butter, room temperature
- 1 egg
- 5 ml golden syrup
Method
- Preheat the oven to 180 C.
- Sift the flour, caster sugar, baking soda, cinnamon, salt and ginger together.
- Rub the butter into the dry ingredients until the mixture resembles breadcrumbs.
- Beat the egg and golden syrup together.
- Mix the egg mixture into the dry ingredients to form a dough.
- Roll the dough into small balls and place them on a prepared baking tray.
- Bake for about 15 minutes.
- Allow the biscuits to cool on the baking tray.