Gingerbread townhouse cookies – a must-bake cookie for the holiday season! These gingerbreads are very delicious, crisp, sturdy, and hold their shape, never spread and spiced beautifully with ginger and cardamom! If you are planning to bake a Christmas table centerpiece of gingerbread townhouse village as I did, this is your go-to cookie recipe! Works perfectly like a charm!
I made a very tall village ( I used 4 x dough to make this village) but you could certainly make a small one. I used styrofoam pieces, you could cover it with royal icing or brush corn syrup all over and sprinkle some sparkling sugar all over it. Arrange the cookies ( you could prop them with a toothpick or stick them with royal icing) and sprinkle some powdered sugar on top to complete the look! It turned out beautifully!
I did not use any cookie cutters. There are lots of townhouse cookies template’s available on Etsy. You could choose your favorite and make your village. I used 1s piping tip.
Here you go with the recipe:
Ingredients:
All-purpose flour-31/2 cups
Jaggery powder /palm sugar/ dark brown sugar- 3/4 cup ( You could add 2 tbsp extra brown sugar if you want your gingerbreads on the sweeter side)
Ground ginger-1 tbsp tsp
Ground cloves -1/4 tsp
Ground cinnamon- 1 tsp
Cardamom powder- 1/4 tsp
Large egg- 1 room temperature
Softened unsalted butter-8 tbsp or 1 stick
Salt-1/4 tsp
Baking soda-1/4 tsp
Unsulphured Blackstrap molasses -1/2 cup
Vanilla extract- 2 tsp
Water/ milk – 1 or 2 tbsp as required for forming the dough
Royal icing: click here for the recipe
Method:
Preheat the oven to 350f.
In a bowl whisk together flour, ground spices, baking soda, and salt.
In a mixer fitted with a paddle attachment cream together butter and dark brown sugar along with molasses until light. Add the egg and vanilla extract and beat until well mixed.
Add the dry ingredients in batches till it forms a dough. Add water/ milk if you feel the dough is on the drier side.
Pack it in cling wrap and refrigerate it for an hour or overnight. The dough stays areas for 3 days in the refrigerator.
Take the dough out roll it on in between two parchment sheets, use templates to cut out the desired shapes.
Bake for 8 to 10 mins till the edges brown. Timings very depending on the size.
Remove and let cool. Make the royal icing and decorate your townhouses as desired.
