Mickey & Minnie Gingerbread Cookies

Finally we made some gingerbread so I was able to get my Mickey & Minnie cookie cutters out and make these delicious buttery sweet & spicy cookies these are so easy to make and they only take 10 minutes to bake in the oven. 

for the gingerbread cookies you will need 

125 grams of butter 

1/3 of a cup of brown sugar 

1/4 of a cup of golden syrup or treacle 

2 cups of white plain flour 

1/4 of a cup of self raising flour 

1 tablespoon of grond ginger

1 teaspoon of bicarb soda

330gram's of icing sugar to decorate 

food colouring of your choice 

sprinkles of your choice or even m&ms we used some christmas ones 

pair of Minnie and Mickey cutters Preheat your oven at 180 degrees fan forced 

Line 2 baking trays with baking paper 

In a large mixing bowl beat butter, sugar and syrup together in a bowl until creamy add the egg and beat well.

In a seprate bowl sift your flours & bicarb soda together and add to the butter mixture fold in slowly.

Add some baking paper and some flour and kneaded the dough lightly until smooth you can also let it cool in the fridge for 15 minutes too.

cut out your Mickey shapes and place on a baking tray. 

cook for 10 to 15 minutes 

Wait for the cookie's to cool completely before icing them 

for the icing mixture we use just plain icing sugar and two drops of food colouring mix well with a little bit of water and drip of the excess icing mixture add some m&m's and let it set 

Happy Holidays 

Geri 

xxx