Today I made some Piernickzi from a recipe that I had seen on Ren Behan‘s Fabulicious blog.
They are spiced Polish gingerbread biscuits that also work well as decorations and they are flavoured with ginger, cinnamon, mixed spice and all things nice.
It’s a lovely dough to work with and the recipe made 5 trays of aromatic festive little biscuits.
They should have delicate white icing, but I don’t really do delicate, so for the moment they are staying as they are, which is just fine with me.
Find Ren’s recipe here.
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Sally
December 17, 2011
I made Ren’s pierniczki recipe too for a gingerbread decorating session round at my house last weekend as well as my tried and tested traditional one. I think you need a bit of icing to set off the slightly dusky taste. ‘don’t do delicate’ your creations are a lot more beautiful than mine were!
Sally
December 17, 2011
I just realised you did a biscuit for Ernie. Cute.
thingswemake.co.uk
December 21, 2011
he he! It’s actually one for Ed…and he ate it!
Choclette
December 17, 2011
These look great and am now wishing I’d put a hole in the middle of mine too, so they would at least have the potential to be used as decorations.. I’m not os good at intricate either and left mine plain.
thingswemake.co.uk
December 21, 2011
Yours look lovely in the little bags. I need to track some of those down so that I can put mine in our hamper presents.
Rufus' Food and Spirits Guide
December 17, 2011
Those turned out wonderfully.
Just A Smidgen
December 18, 2011
These would smell so pretty on a tree!! heavenly! I love your red ribbon touch as well..
thingswemake.co.uk
December 21, 2011
That one tiny bit of red ribbon keeps cropping up in my photos as it looks so cute!
Ren Behan
December 18, 2011
Hi Claire, these look wonderful! I’m so pleased you tried them, the photos are beautiful, I love the blue wooden background, it really sets them off.
On some of mine, I used a snowflake cutter and added some ready roll cut out snowflakes on some of them rather than icing them all, so that’s a good alternative. I don’t beleive that you don’t do delicate!!
Thank you so much for linking back to me 🙂
thingswemake.co.uk
December 21, 2011
I always try and be generous with my link backs! These cookies are so cute. I may get around to icing them later. Thanks for sharing.
egg me on
December 19, 2011
Great looking cookies — and awesome photos. Love the blue lighting, the ribbon, the tiny reindeer. They really could be ornaments. (Really tasty ornaments!)
thingswemake.co.uk
December 21, 2011
Thanks – I may just get an icing nozzle today and get drawing snowflakes on them!
DrV
January 11, 2012
I had pierniczki for Christmas in Poland and they were amazing, with a lot of decoration and shiny sweets on them !
Le Patron
December 11, 2012
Your cookies look good, I am sure they taste even better…
Ren Behan (@RenBehan)
December 21, 2012
Love this post so much! Have just included it again in a little Christmas round up, Merry Christmas to you and your family Claire. x
IshitaUnblogged
December 30, 2013
Beautiful as always. I still remember the bauble chandelier you made last year. Have a lovely year ahead:)