How to prepare

Popular sweet pastry with the aroma of cinnamon, star anise and honey can please more than just your sweet tooth. In the hands of a skilled cook, it can turn into a small work of art.

Heat up the honey and fat and mix them thoroughly with the remaining ingredients. Cover the dough in food wrap, for example, to protect it from going stale and store it in cold (ideally until the next day at least).

Roll the dough on a thoroughly dusted surface (it is very supple). It will be about 0.4 cm thick. Then cut out the desired shapes. You can dust with fine corn flour for example. Decorate the cut out pieces with the sunflower seeds according to your imagination. Bake on a tray (either using baking paper or dusting) at about 160-170 °C. Use the conventional heating program, not the the fan oven, to bake the gingerbread cookies gradually. Bake for about 12 minutes (depending on the size). Once baked, smear with whipped yolk and water lightly to make the cookies glossy. At this point, the cookies are prepared for sugar icing. When using chocolate for icing, it is not necessary to smear the cookies with egg.

Inspiration

To prepare the icing, very thoroughly (use a fine sieve) sift 140 g of powdered sugar. It is necessary to remove all the sugar crystals. Then mix the sugar and egg white (M size egg, ca. 30 g of white) and beat until a white substance is achieved. If the icing is too thin, add some sugar. If it is too thick, add drops of lemon juice. Some people even add starch flour into the icing. Pour the icing into a cellophane cone or another icer… and let your fantasy run wild.