Sunday, 7 December 2014

Sunday bakes - Cinnamon bread cookies



This recipe is a hash up of a couple of things that I tasted and saw. The basic cookie recipe is one for stained-glass cookies, but after tasting the wonderful cinnamon biscuits from the Cinnamon Tree Bakery. In Borough market they sell their marvellous elephant-embossed cinnamon biscuits, so I decided to play around to see if I could make an approximation of them. 

Ingredients
12 oz flour
½ tsp salt
1 tsp ginger
3 tsp cinnamon
3.5oz margarine
6oz brown sugar
1 free-range egg
4 tbsp golden syrup

Method
Cream the margarine and sugar together before adding the spices, salt and syrup. Once thoroughly mixed add the egg and then the flour. The mixture will be fairly dry so you can roll it out and cut it into shapes. Much like gingerbread it will hold its shape while baking so I think you could easily use this to make a gingerbread house, if you prefer cinnamon to ginger.
The bakers at the cinnamon tree bakery emboss the biscuits with a white print of an elephant, but I have yet to work out how they do this, so instead I used a cookie cutter to imprint the shape of a snowflake, you could also ice them. 


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