Honey cake sticks

Ingredients

Directions

1. 1

   Heat honey, brown sugar and butter until the butter has melted. Leave to cool. Sieve the flour, baking powder and gingerbread spice into a bowl. Place the butter mix and egg in the middle and quickly work into a smooth dough with the whisk of the hand mixer. Wrap the dough in foil and chill for at least 1 hour

2. 2

   Quarter the dough and form into rolls on a floured work surface. If necessary, cut the rolls in half again. Roll each roll of dough into a long thin (0.5-1 cm Ø) strand. Cut the strands of dough into sticks about 10 cm long and spread them on 2 baking trays covered with baking paper. Bake the trays one after the other in a preheated oven (electric range: 200 °C/ convection oven: 175 °C/ gas: level 3) for 6-7 minutes. Take out and let cool on a cake rack

3. 3

   Meanwhile wash the orange, rub dry and rub half of the peel thinly. Halve the orange and squeeze the juice. In a small pot, reduce the orange juice to just under half its original volume and let it cool down. Mix orange peel and sugar and put aside

4. 4

   Sieve the icing sugar into a bowl. Add 1-2 tablespoons of reduced orange juice and mix to a smooth thick icing. Pour the icing into a piping bag or freezer bag and cut off a small corner. Decorate the sticks with icing and sprinkle with the orange sugar. Leave to dry

5. 5

   waiting time approx. 2 hours