What’s on Your Holiday Baking List This Year?
It’s that time of year again! Christmas season!
And what’s the most made treat during Christmas Season?…… Cookies!
Especially Gingerbread Cookies. So these Chocolate Cinnamon “Gingerbread” Cookies are perfect for the holidays.
These beauties are shaped just like gingerbread cookies but there’s technically no actual ginger in the cookies. They just look like them. Lol. They’re filled with a lot of cocoa powder and spiced with cinnamon. And they have a vanilla royal icing piped on top. The recipe comes from The Cookie Countess, so you know they’re amazing. These are the perfect cookie to bring to your holiday exchange!
Chocolate Cinnamon “Gingerbread” Cookies
Ingredients
Cookies
- 1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
- 3/4 cup salted butter, softened
- 1/4 cup dark corn syrup
- 2 eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 2/3 cup regular cocoa
- 1/4 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 3-3 1/2 cups flour (start with 3 and if your dough seems too sticky add more)
Royal Icing
- 1 1/2 cups powdered sugar
- 2 tbsp warm water
- 1/2 tbsp light corn syrup
- 1/4 tsp vanilla
Instructions
Dough
- Using a stand mixer with the paddle attachment, cream together butter and sugar. Add eggs, vanilla, and corn syrup to mixer. Mix at low speed until fully blended. Add the dry ingredients to the wet, one cup at a time with your mixer on low, until all are incorporated. Separate your dough into 3 equal balls. Roll out each ball to about a 1/4" thickness between sheets of wax paper. Then chill these "flats" of dough for at least an hour before baking. Line your baking pans with parchment paper. Use holiday shaped cookie cutters to cut out the cookies. Bake at 375 degrees for 10-14 minutes. Cool on a wire rack.
Royal Icing
- In a small bowl, combine warm water, light corn syrup, and extract. Stir until corn syrup is dissolved. Add sugar water to powdered sugar and stir until completely combined. Mixture will be thick. Add water more water if needed little by little. Place icing in a piping bag with a small round tip. Decorate each cookie to your liking.
