White Chocolate Gingerbread Stars Recipes

CHEWY WHITE CHOCOLATE CHIP GINGERBREAD COOKIES

Steps:

• Beat together the butter with 1 cup of sugar in a mixing bowl until the mixture is smooth, and stir in beaten egg and molasses. In another bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda, ginger, cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, and salt; stir the flour mixture into the molasses mixture by half cupfuls. Stir in the white chocolate chips. Refrigerate dough for at least 1 hour.
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Scoop up a generous spoonful of dough, and roll it into a ball. Roll the ball in sugar, place onto an ungreased baking sheet, and flatten slightly. Sprinkle a little sugar onto the cookie, if desired. Repeat for the rest of the cookies.
• Bake the cookies in the preheated oven until lightly browned, 10 to 15 minutes. Allow to cool on the baking sheet for about 1 minute before removing to finish cooling on racks.

WHITE CHOCOLATE-GINGERBREAD STARS

Steps:

• In large bowl, beat brown sugar, butter, molasses and egg with electric mixer on medium speed until well blended. On low speed, beat in flour, ginger, cinnamon, baking soda, salt and cloves. On lightly floured surface, shape dough into a ball; press into a flat disk. Wrap in plastic wrap; refrigerate 1 hour or until firm.
• Heat oven to 350°F. Lightly spray large cookie sheets with cooking spray. On lightly floured surface, roll dough to 1/4-inch thickness. Cut with floured 3- to 4-inch star-shaped cookie cutter. On cookie sheets, place cutouts 2 inches apart. Reroll dough and cut additional cookies.
• Bake 10 to 12 minutes or until no indentation remains when touched in center. Immediately remove from cookie sheets to cooling racks; cool completely.
• In small microwavable bowl, microwave white chocolate uncovered on High 45 seconds to 1 minute or until melted; stir until smooth. Spoon into resealable food-storage plastic bag; seal bag. Cut off tiny corner of bag. Twist bag above melted chocolate; squeeze bag to drizzle chocolate over cookies. Immediately sprinkle with sparkling sugar. Let stand 30 minutes or until set.

WHITE CHOCOLATE-GINGERBREAD BLONDIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Coat a 17-by-12-inch rimmed baking sheet with cooking spray. Line bottom with parchment cut to fit, and coat parchment. Whisk together flour, baking soda, salt, and spices.
• Beat butter and brown and granulated sugars with a mixer on medium-high speed until pale and fluffy. Add eggs and yolk, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition and scraping down sides of bowl as needed. Beat in vanilla and molasses. Reduce speed to low. Gradually add flour mixture, and beat until just combined. Stir in white chocolate.
• Spread batter into prepared pan. Bake until edges are golden, about 25 minutes. Let cool completely in pan on a wire rack. Cut into 2-inch squares or desired shape.

WHITE CHOCOLATE DIPPED GINGERBREAD COOKIES

Steps:

• Whisk molasses, water and egg in a small bowl; set aside.
• With an electric mixer, mix flour, sugar, baking soda, salt, orange peel, cinnamon, ginger, cloves, nutmeg and allspice in large mixing bowl.
• Cut in butter using a pastry blender or 2 knives until the mixture resembles coarse meal.
• Pour molasses mixture over flour; beat with mixer until dough forms.
• Turn out on lightly floured surface. Knead 5 to 7 minutes.
• Transfer dough to bowl; cover. Chill a minimum of 2 hours.
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Roll dough between 2 sheets of waxed paper to 1/8-inch thickness.
• Cut with cookie cutters.
• Place on baking sheets; bake for 10 to 12 minutes. Cool.
• Melt shortening and white baking chocolate in heavy saucepan over medium heat. Dip half of each cookie in chocolate.
• Place on cooling racks or wax paper to let chocolate harden.

GINGERBREAD STAR TREE

Steps:

• Put the sugar, syrup and butter in a saucepan. Bring to a simmer, then bubble for 1-2 mins, stirring. Set aside to cool for 10 mins.
• Tip the flour, bicarb and spices into a large bowl. Add the syrup mixture and the egg, stir to bring everything together, then gently knead in the bowl until smooth. The dough will feel a little soft, but will firm up once cooled. Wrap and chill for at least 30 mins.
• Remove the dough from the fridge and leave at room temperature until softened. Heat oven to 200C/180C fan/gas 6 and line two baking trays with baking parchment.
• Working with half the dough at a time (keeping the remaining dough well wrapped), roll out to the thickness of a £1 coin. Cut out 10-12 stars in descending size, re-rolling the offcuts if you need to. Arrange over the trays and bake for 8 mins until a few shades darker and puffed up a little. Cool on the trays for 5 mins, then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely. Will keep, un-iced, in an airtight container for up to two weeks.
• Mix the icing sugar with enough water to make a thick, pipeable icing. Transfer to a piping bag and decorate. Pipe a blob of icing in the middle of each biscuit and stack them to make a tree, sticking the smallest star on top, standing upright.

GINGER BISCOTTI WITH WHITE CHOCOLATE

Steps:

• Blend white and brown sugars, chopped chocolate, butter, eggs, molasses and vanilla.
• Stir in flour, salt, baking powder, cinnamon, ginger, cloves and allspice.
• Stir into a stiff dough.
• Dough will be fairly dry.
• Roll out to a thickness of 1/2 inch and cut into preferred shapes.
• Preheat oven to 350F and bake on a cookie sheet for about 25 minutes (this biscotti is only baked once).
• Let cookies cool, then dip into melted white chocolate.