Ginger Cookies

Ingredients

• 175 g butter
• 175 g powdered sugar
• 1 pinch salt
• 3 eggs
• 175 g flour
• 1 tsp Baking powder
• 75 g ground almonds
• 3 tsp ginger powder
• 1 tbsp candied ginger
• 200 g powdered sugar
• 1 tbsp Lemon Juice
• raspberry syrup
• colored sugar pearls

Instructions

1. 1.

   Preheat the oven to 180°C fan.

2. 2.

   Beat butter with powdered sugar and salt until creamy. Add eggs one at a time, then fold in flour, baking powder, almonds, ginger powder and finely chopped candied ginger. Fill a piping bag fitted with a smooth medium tip and pipe 2–3 cm dots onto parchment-lined tray. Bake in preheated oven for 10–15 minutes, remove, carefully lift from tray and cool.

3. 3.

   For decoration whisk powdered sugar with lemon juice into a thick glaze, tint pink with raspberry syrup if desired. Brush the cookies and sprinkle with colored sugar pearls. Let set.