How to make
Sift the flour into a bowl, mix it with the sugar, ginger, orange peel (only the orange part) and cinnamon. Add pieces of butter to them. Rub with your fingers, until crumbs are obtained.
Put the honey and the egg whites (set aside a little of one of the egg whites for decoration in combination with powdered sugar).
Knead a smooth dough. If it is sticky, add more flour and if it is too hard, you can add drops of orange juice.
Shape the dough into a ball, wrap it with cling film and refrigerate it, until it hardens enough to easily roll it out.
Roll it out into about 3 mm thin crust and cut out round shaped cookies. If you have snowflake cookie cutters, it would be easier to use them, because that way you would draw the decoration on them more precisely.
Arrange the cookies on a tray lined with baking paper, spaced apart. Bake them in 3-4 batches in an oven heated to 370°F (190°C) for 7 minutes (each tray), or until the cookies aquire a golden brown color on the edges.
They are quite soft when you remove them, so carefully remove them if you are going to use the same paper for the next batch.
Once they have cooled, you can let your imagination run wild and draw beautiful snowflakes with a mixture of the egg white and powdered sugar - enough to make a medium-thick white mixture. If you wish, color part of it blue and the snowflake cookies will become even more beautiful.
Ginger, orange and cinnamon... this is the scent of Christmas.
Happy Holidays!
