Honey gingerbread cookies

Ingredients for 1 servings:

• 200 g butter, soft
• 250 g sugar
• 500 g honey
• 3 eggs
• 1,000 g wheat flour type 405
• 1 pack of gingerbread spice
• 12 g baking powder
• 50 g cocoa powder, unsweetened

Instructions

Working time approx. 2 hours; Rest time approx. 30 minutes; Cooking/baking time approx. 8 minutes; Total time approx. 2 hours 38 minutes

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Cream the butter and sugar until fluffy. While whisking, add the eggs, followed by the honey. Mix the flour, gingerbread spice, baking powder, and cocoa powder, then gradually add the dry ingredients. Knead the dough thoroughly and then refrigerate for 30 minutes. (Kneading will warm the dough and make it quite soft; refrigerating will firm the butter a little, making the dough easier to work with.) Roll out the dough to a thickness of about 4 mm and cut out cookies. Bake the cookies for 8 minutes at 180°C (preheated) in a fan oven, then remove from the oven and let cool. Be careful not to overbake, or they will become far too hard. They should still be slightly soft when removed from the oven, but lighter in color than the unbaked dough. They will cool when cooked through. Please also bear in mind that every oven is slightly different, and the thickness of the dough and the size of the cookie cutters will affect the baking time. You have to experiment a bit and bake them for 7, 8, or 9 minutes.