Christmas ginger ginger bread cookies

Ingredients:

• 175 g softened butter
  
• 175 g brown sugar
  
• 2 eggs
  
• 450 g flour
  
• 2 tsp baking powder
  
• 2 tbsp. tablespoons ground ginger
  

• 2 tsp ground red pepper
  

For the glaze:

• 1 egg white
  
• 100 g powdered sugar
  
• few drops of lemon juice
  

Preparation:

• Beat butter and sugar until smooth. Gradually add eggs, sift flour, baking powder, ginger and pepper, knead a soft dough.
  
• Put the dough on surface sprinkled with flour, knead. Wrap in foil and place in refrigerator for 30 minutes.
  
• Roll out the dough 5 mm thick and cut out cup, hexagons. Within each hexagon a smaller cup, make a notch.
  
• Put cookies on baking trays and bake at 180 ° C for 8-10 minutes. The finished cookies absorb glaze and sprinkle with colored sprinkled.
  
• Glaze. Beat egg whites, powdered sugar and lemon juice in a dense foam.