Easy Baking

This recipe of pound cookies is perfect for Valentine because you can use heart sprinkles or coat the pound cakes in red icing.I love the taste of ginger in the cake and combined with the cream cheese icing makes it very delicious.  

Ingredients for Gingerbread pound cookies :

1 cup all purpose flour

1/2 cup butter

1/2 cup granulated sugar

2 eggs at the room temperature

1 tsp cinnamon

1 tsp ground ginger

1/2 tsp baking powder

Icing :

1 1/2 tbsp of butter

1/2 cup of icing sugar

1/2 cup cream cheese

1 tbsp of vanilla

Preheat oven to 325F. Spray your muffin pan with a nonstick cooking spray or coat it lightly with canola oil. Invert on paper towel to let excess drip off.

Cream the butter until creamy with a spatula .Add the sugar and beat on high for 30 seconds. Add eggs one at the time beating well after each addition.

In another bowl sift together flour, cinnamon , ginger and baking powder. With mixer on low speed add flour mixture to butter mixture in 3 additions, stopping mixer to scrape down of bowl with spatula. Do not over mix. Divide batter evenly among cups of already prepared pan. Tap firmly on counter 5 to 6 times to settle batter into pan.

Bake for 15 to 25 minutes depending on the stove or until pick tooth come out clean. Cool at room temperature

For the icing leave the cream cheese at room temperature for 30 minutes at least. Mix all the ingredients well with a mixer. Coat the gingerbread with the icing and sprinkle some candies.

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