Winter Walk Gingerbread Cookies

Replace the spices in your favorite gingerbread recipe with the following herbal blend for a spicy and woodsy take on a traditional winter sweet. Decorate the cookies with royal icing, rose petals, juniper berries*, poppy seeds, rosemary sugar and rose sugar.

Ingredients:

• 2 tsp cinnamon
• 1 ½ tsp ginger
• 1 ½ tsp cardamom
• 1 tsp ground rosemary
• ¾ tsp ground juniper berry

To decorate: 

• Rose sugar
• Rosemary sugar
• Whole juniper berries*
• Whole poppy seeds
• Small dried rosebuds
• Dried rose petals

To make the sugars:

Mix ground rose and sugar until you reach desired color and flavor.  

Mix ground rosemary and sugar until you reach desired color and flavor. 

To make royal icing:

Method:

Mix and bake your cookies according to the recipe instructions. 

Allow them to cool and then decorate with royal icing, herbs and sugars. 

*if you forage the juniper berries confirm that they are an edible species. You can also buy them dried at the store.