Ingredients
- 0.5 cup of butter
- Egg 1
- 1 cup of honey
- 2 cups of flour
- 1 baking powder
- 1 cup of sugar
- 1 tablespoon of ginger
- 1 teaspoon of cinnamon
- 0.5 teaspoon of cloves
- 1 cup of hot water
- salt
Method
- Preheat the oven to 175 degrees Celsius and spray the baking tins with cooking spray
- Peel and grate the ginger
- Mix the butter with the sugar, and once the sugar has melted with the butter, add the egg, and continue whisking it. Once it was combined add the honey and the ginger too. Mix it well until they are all combined.
- In another bowl, mix the flour, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, cloves.
- Gradually add the dry ingredients to the wet ones and continue whisking it.
- Gradually add the water too, until the batter is smooth.
- Port the batter into the baking tins, and bake them for about 35-40 minutes.
- Once it is baked, place them on a cooling wrack and let them rest.
Garnishes: Sugar glaze can be poured on top of the gingerbread once it has cooled down, or it can be sprinkled with icing sugar.
Fun facts: An early form of gingerbread can be traced to the ancient Greeks and Egyptians who used it for ceremonial purposes. Gingerbread made an appearance in Europe when 11th-century Crusaders brought back ginger from the Middle East for the aristocrats’ cooks to experiment with. As ginger and other spices became more affordable to the masses, gingerbread caught on.
