These were a huge hit with all recipients!

Recipe courtesy of The Australian Women's Weekly: Macaroons & Biscuits Cookbok!

Ingredients

• 125g unsalted butter, softened
• 110g firmly packed dark brown sugar
• 1 egg yolk
• 375g plain flour
• 1tsp bicarbonate of soda
• 3tsp ground ginger
• 175g golden syrup

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 180C. Line baking tray with baking paper.

2. Beat butter, sugar and egg yolk in small bowl with electric mixer until smooth. Transfer to a large bowl and stir in sifted dry ingredients and syrup in two batches.
   

3. Knead dough gently on floured surface until smooth. Roll dough between sheets of baking paper to 5mm thickness (it may be easier to divide the the dough into halves) Proceed to cut dough into desired shaped and bake about 10 minutes. Cool on trays.

I decorated the cookies with assorted colors of Royal Icing.  I substituted the Lemon Juice in the recipe below with Vanilla Extract, and it was YUMMY.  Note: Do not eat too much Royal Icing...

Ingredients

1 egg white
240g pure icing sugar
4 drops lemon juice
food colouring

Directions

Beat egg in small bowl with electric mixer, gradually beat in sifted icing sugar. When mixture reaches piping consistency beat in juice(/essence). Divide and Colour icing as you desire.