My host said, that now it would be more than urgent to bake some more cookies or we only would have four sorts. You see, that Sweetsy arrived at our home today and also Princess Sarah. Sweetsy brought some wonderful gingerbread cookies with him. But four sorts of cookies aren't enough for all of us, so we told her, that we all would help together and get some more done.
Here we read the recipe for our host's favorite gingerbread recipe. Sweetsy was so happy, that at his first day he had the chance to try another gingerbread recipe: Zigeunerschnitten. The recipe is handwritten in our host's book, because it is a family recipe from her grandparents. She said, that she never found this recipe somewhere else, but maybe someone knows this recipe too?
At first Pinkz helped to weigh the butter.
Then BineHH helped to add the sugar for the dough.
Galo said, that if it comes to eggs, it would be his turn. We all were a bit nervous, because we didn't know, if he could stand it.
Hey, Galo! What's the matter!
Wake up! We knew it! It was too hard for him!
After a while Galo felt better and we all went back to our places.
Now Jennifer added almonds.
Sweetsy added raisins.
We had to have a break in preparing the dough for Zigeunerschnitten, because we forgot to buy some necessary ingredients. So we went on with preparing other cookies.
Jimmy_D helped to prick out the Spitzbuben cookies.
Smooch and Scotty helped to roll the dough for Zimtsterne (star-shaped cinnamon cookies).
I tried to help to form Nougatkipfert.
Finally one other family member bought the missing ingredients for Zigeunerschnitten and we had been able to finish the dough.
Scotty added candied lemon peel and candied orange peel to the dough.
Spooky used the spoon to add cacao powder to the dough.
Then it was time to add the cinnamon.
At last it was time to add the flour.
Pinkz stirred the dough.
The result is a really heavy brown dough.
Smooch and Galo rolled the dough on the baking plate. It is hard work.
After baking the air smelled of gingerbread, yummy. Nevertheless we still had to decorate the Zigeunerschnitten.
After the Zigeunerschnitten were cold enough we cut them into smaller pieces and put them in a box.
We also decorated the Nougatkipferl
and Husarenkrapferl
