I Love Gingerbread Cookies
🎄 A Holiday Treat 🎄
I first made them while living in the US during the holidays and it has become a tradition for our family eversince!
Gingerbread Then & Now
Gingerbread and the shapes it takes have a long history. An early form of gingerbread can be traced to the ancient Greeks and Egyptians who used it for ceremonial purposes. Gingerbread made an appearance in Europe when 11th-century Crusaders brought back ginger from the Middle East for the aristocrats' cooks to experiment with. As ginger and other spices became more affordable to the masses, gingerbread caught on.
Today gingerbread is a baked sweet containing ginger and sometimes cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, cardamom and anise, and sweetened with any combination of brown sugar, molasses, light or dark corn syrup, or honey. Learn more
DIY gingerbread cookies: