Citrus gingerbread cookies from Billington's
Makes: 15
Prep time: 35 mins
Total time:
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Citrus gingerbread cookies from Billington's
These vegan biscuits are filled with buttercream and lightly sprayed with edible gold glitter
Makes: 15
Prep time: 35 mins
Total time:
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Benjamina Ebuehi
Benjamina is a baker, food stylist and recipe writer who is known for appearing on The Great British Bake Off in 2016. In 2019, she released a cookbook called ‘The New Way to Cake’
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Ingredients
For the gingerbread
- 100g soft dairy-free butter
- 50g Billington’s dark muscovado sugar
- 225g plain flour, plus extra for dusting
- ½ tsp bicarbonate of soda
- 2 tsp ground ginger
- 5 tbsp golden syrup
For the decoration
- 100g dairy-free white chocolate, melted
For the buttercream
- 140g dairy-free butter
- 290g Billington’s golden icing sugar, sieved
- zest and juice of 1 large lime
- gold edible glitter spray
Step by step
- Put the dairy-free butter and muscovado sugar in a medium saucepan, and heat gently until the butter has melted and the sugar has dissolved. Stir until the mixture blends together, but do not boil.
- Remove from the heat and sieve in the flour, bicarbonate of soda and ginger, then pour in the golden syrup and beat until smooth.
- Turn out the mixture onto some cling film and pat into a flat disc, then wrap tightly and chill for 30 minutes.
- Preheat the oven to 170°C, 150°C fan, gas 3½. Line 2 baking trays with baking paper.
- When ready to bake, roll out the dough on a surface lightly dusted with flour until 4mm thick, then stamp out 30 rounds, using a 6cm plain round cutter (and re-rolling the dough as necessary). Transfer the cookies onto the prepared baking trays, spacing them slightly apart, and bake for 12-15 minutes until they are golden. Leave to cool slightly on the trays then transfer to a cooling rack.
- When ready to decorate, using 15 cookies, dip half of each cookie into the melted white chocolate and arrange them on a tray lined with baking paper until the white chocolate has set.
- For the buttercream, beat together the dairy-free butter, icing sugar, half of the lime zest and 1 tsp lime juice in a bowl until smooth. Put the buttercream into a piping bag fitted with a medium-sized star nozzle.
- To assemble the cookies, pipe swirls of buttercream evenly over 15 cookies, then top with the chocolate-dipped cookies. Spray lightly with the edible gold glitter and sprinkle over the remaining lime zest.