Chocolate Gingerbread Stamp Cookies have to be the prettiest cookies out there. Made with a gingerbread dough and pressed with beautiful stamps then glazed to perfection with a vanilla or coffee glaze, these cookies will win your heart in a flash.
It may be post Christmas but it’s never too late to share a cookie recipe in my opinion. Especially when it comes to these little beauties. For two years now I’ve been making these at Christmas time and they are winner every time I roll out a batch. This year the kids school teachers were the recipients of these, wrapped in cellophane with pretty ribbon, sprig of fir and a personalised tag … what a cute Christmas present hey!
It’s cookie time!
I have a confession. I’m not a huge cookie maker. This is obvious when you head to my blog … there aren’t many recipes on it. But what it does mean is that when I have a great recipe that I’m truly in love with … well I want to share that with you. This recipe for my Chocolate Gingerbread Stamp Cookies is one of them.
They are simple to make, delicious to eat and beautiful to look at. The trifecta really when it comes to a cookies.
How to make Chocolate Gingerbread Stamp Cookies
- Cream the butter, sugar for a couple of minutes until light and fluffy.
- Beat in the yolk until combined
- Sift in the dry ingredients and beat until a dough just starts to form
- Turn out onto a floured surface and knead until smooth. Roll out to 1/4 inch thickness and chill in the fridge for half hour
- Cut and stamp. Cut out rounds of the dough and press the stamp into each of the rounds and then bake for 8 minutes.
- Glaze. Whilst the cookies are still warm, mix together your glaze ingredients and brush each cookie getting the glaze into all the indents made by the stamp.
For other Christmas inspired recipes check out the following:
Cranberry Orange Shortbread Cookies
Dulche de Leche Clementine Cake
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Chocolate Gingerbread Stamp Cookies
- Prep Time: 20 plus chilling
- Cook Time: 8
- Total Time: 25 minute
- Yield: 14 1x
- Category: Cookies
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: American
Description
Delicious gingerbread dough rolled out and stamped into beautiful designs then glazed to perfection. The prettiest cookies you ever did eat!
Ingredients
For the Cookies
90g (1/4 cup plus 2 tablespoon) unsalted butter, at room temperature
100g (1/2 cup) dark brown sugar
110g (1/3 cup) molasses
1 large egg yolk
260g (1 3/4 cups) all-purpose flour
2 tablespoon cocoa powder
½ tsp baking soda
1 teaspoon ground ginger
¼ teaspoon salt
Optional (I’m not a fan of these spices but if you are then add these to the mix)
½ teaspoon cinnamon
¼ teaspoon cloves
¼ teaspoon nutmeg
For the Glaze
120g (¾ cup) icing sugar
5g (1 teaspoon) unsalted butter, melted
½ teaspoon vanilla extract
1 tablespoon milk (or more if necessary)
Variation: 1 tablespoon of coffee to replace the milk
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 190C. Put your stamps in the fridge or freezer to chill until needed.
- In the bowl of an electric stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, on medium speed cream together the butter, sugar and molasses. Add the egg yolk beat until fully combined.
- Sift the dry ingredients, flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, ginger, salt (and optional spices) into the stand mixer bowl and beat on medium until the dough just starts to come together.
- On a lightly floured surface, turn out the dough and knead it until all the floury crumbles are incorporated. If you find it too dry, then add a teaspoon at a time of milk. Flatten the dough into a disk and then roll out to about 1/4-inch thickness. Place on a sheet of baking paper on a baking sheet and refrigerate for 15 to 30 minutes.
- Use a cookie round (slightly bigger than the stamp) and cut out the rounds. Then remove your cookie stamp from the fridge/freezer, dust with flour and press the stamp into each of the rounds.
- Transfer the cookies to a lined baking sheet and bake for 8 minutes. You don’t want to over bake these cookies, so do a test cookie or two to figure out the best timing for your oven. The cookies will be soft when you remove them from the oven but will firm up as they cool.
- While the cookies are baking whisk the glaze ingredients together until they become a smooth thin glaze. Add more milk (or coffee) if the glaze is too thick, it should have the consistency of maple syrup or a thin honey.
- Put the cookies on a cooling rack and brush them with the glaze while still slightly warm. The glaze will dry in about 15 minutes.
Keywords: Cookies, Christmas, Festive,
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