I love making gingerbread cookies and usually use a melting method but recently I have been baking with very young children ( 2-4 year olds) and I needed to develop a recipe that would not need to be heated. Also by using a rubbed in method it is very tactile for little ones, it can be used straight away, as tiny folk don’t like to wait but the dough does improve if you give it 15 minutes to chill in the refrigerator.
Although this is a Christmas recipe it can be made at any time of year and goes well with a cup of tea or coffee. These are ideal cookies to batch bake as gifts for family friends and as fund raisers.