Herringbone test of ginger

500 g plain flour
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1 h. l. baking powder

1 h. l. soda

3 h. l. ground ginger

0.5 h. l. ground cardamom

150 g unsalted butter, softened

175 g dark brown sugar

150 g honey

1 egg

1 egg white

240 g 1.5 cups () icing sugar, sifted, plus an additional amount for dusting the finished product

Preheat the oven to 180C. Sift the flour, baking powder, baking soda, spices and a pinch of salt in a large bowl. Using an electric mixer, beat butter with brown sugar until well saturated state of the air mass. Add the honey and egg. Beat until smooth. Set the mixer on the lowest speed and add in a lot of sifted dry ingredients until the dough is uniform. Divide the dough into two halves. Wrap each piece of dough in plastic and refrigerate for 30 minutes.

Meanwhile, paint on cardboard stars diameter of 19 cm, 15 cm and 10 cm, cut it out. Still, we need stars diameter of 4.5 cm and 7.5 cm, but these sizes can be found and formulations to cut biscuits.

Roll one half of dough between sheets of paper to provoschennoy thickness of 4 mm. Using patterns of stars, as well as figures for the cookies to 7.5 cm, cut 3 stars of each size of the test. And the remaining dough cut so many stars in the size of 4.5 cm as possible.

Put all these stars on a baking sheet at a distance of 3 cm from each other, pre-baking provoschennoy Cover the paper. Bake big stars for 8-10 minutes; little stars for 5-7 minutes or until dark rosy color. Cool the cookies on the baking sheet for 5 minutes. Then shift them to the grid or stand before the final cooling.

Whisk the egg white in a bowl. Add the powdered sugar protein portions - 2 tsp at a time. Whisk until sugar is dissolved in the protein, the next portion of sugar, add only after making sure that the sugar is completely dissolved.

Fold the greatest stars, turning them a little bit about the axis so that the rays of the stars did not coincide with respect to the pair of stars. Between big stars lay little stars that the size of 4.5 cm. Promazyvayut each layer of beaten egg whites. Continue to put the Christmas tree in the order of decreasing the size of stars, each layer of paving the little stars, until all the stars on the 7.5 cm will not be used. Complete the design of a Christmas tree with a single asterisk 4.5 cm, put it down, and the second the same star placing upright. Now spread its protein mass.

The remaining stars you can link several stuff, they will simulate a gift box, and put next to the Christmas tree. Sprinkle top with powdered sugar tree.